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of Bandar Abbas. Their uncle, Shamshir Beg, also served in the office, and was succeeded by
Mohammad Beg's cousin Isa Khan Beg. When Mohammad Beg was appointed as the
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In 1661, Mohammad Beg, after having failed to diminish the power of his rivals, was forced to resign from the grand vizier office. He was then exiled to
192:(r. 1666β1694) offered Mohammad Beg to become grand vizier once again, which he agreed to, but while on his way to Isfahan, he died. According to the
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as his grand vizier. One of his first acts was dismissing the
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Mohammad Beg is first mentioned in 1643, when he was appointed as the city prefect of
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Shah Abbas: The
Ruthless King Who became an Iranian Legend
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Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
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Grand Vizier of
Safavid Shah Abbas II from 1654 to 1661
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Armenian family, which originally served as a
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804:Jalal al-Din Mohammad Tabrizi
615:The Cambridge History of Iran
212:Mohammad Beg had a son named
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727:Mirza Mohammad Mahdi Karaki
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559:Newman, Andrew J. (2008).
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38:origin, who served as the
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908:Mirza Lotf Allah Shirazi
860:Jamal al-Din Ali Tabrizi
836:Mir Enayat Allah Khuzani
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586:Iran under the Safavids
478:Babaie, Sussan (2004).
202:Shaykh Ali Khan Zangana
1012:Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh
996:Mohammad Taher Qazvini
499:Matthee, Rudi (2010).
457:Matthee, Rudi (2011).
92:) during the reign of
1116:Armenian Shia Muslims
980:Mirza Mohammad Karaki
900:MΔ±rza Mohammad Monshi
868:Sayyed Hasan Farahani
608:Roemer, H.R. (1986).
506:Encyclopaedia Iranica
163:Parsadan Gorgijanidze
650:Controller of assay
610:"The Safavid period"
424:Blow, David (2009).
30:; died 1672), was a
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1036:Fath-Ali Khan Qajar
932:Salman Khan Ustajlu
884:Mirza Salman Jaberi
654:Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik
638:Government offices
510:. pp. 382β384.
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218:mu'ayyir al-mamalik
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796:Mirza Shah Hossein
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173:in 1656/7,
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190:Suleiman I
181:in 1658).
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130:shahbandar
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820:Nur Kamal
665:Hasan Beg
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527:Routledge
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124:origin).
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100:Biography
94:Shah Safi
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159:Abbas II
122:Georgian
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