Khadem Beg Talish ( fa, خادم بیگ تالش) (died 1514) was a Sufi and military commander of Talysh origin, who served the
Safavid order
The Safavid order, also called the Safaviyya ( fa, صفویه), was a tariqa (Sufi order) founded by the KurdishSafavid dynasty. Khadem Beg was a retainer of Soltan Ali Safavi and his brother Ismail Mirza, when they were child, and an important advisor to the
Shah Ismail
Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Iran, ruling as its King of Kings (''Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His reign is often ...
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He died in
Battle of Chaldiran
The Battle of Chaldiran ( fa, جنگ چالدران; tr, Çaldıran Savaşı) took place on 23 August 1514 and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed Eastern Anatolia a ...
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Career
Khadem Beg served in many of the campaigns of Shah Ismail, especially in one against Arabian Iraq. In 1508, the Shah conquered
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesipho ...
and made him as first governor of Baghdad and the whole province, an office which included the task of supervising the Holy shrine of Karbala. Before holding governorship of Baghdad, he was ''Amir-e Divan'' (later called '' Divan-beigi'') of the Safavid Empire.
He also held the position of ' of
Safavid order
The Safavid order, also called the Safaviyya ( fa, صفویه), was a tariqa (Sufi order) founded by the KurdishYadegar Ali Sultan Talish, Khadem Beg's grandson, became Khalifat al-Khulafa for a brief in 1626–1627 and succeeded by his son,
Badr Khan Sultan Talish Badr (Arabic: بدر) as a given name below is an Arabic masculine and feminine name given to the "full moon on its fourteenth night" or the ecclesiastical full moon.
Badr may refer to: .and it is also one of the oldest and rarest names in the Arabi ...
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See also
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Abdal Beg Talish Abdal Beg Talish, also known as Dada Beg Talish, was a Qizilbash leader (''emir'') of Talysh people, Talysh origin, who served the Safaviyya order, and later the dynasty established by the order, the Safavid dynasty. The date of his death is unknown ...