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BEGLERBEGĪ (Pers. also -beygī), a
Turkish title meaning “beg of begs,” “commander of commanders.” In the Il-khanid period it is sometimes employed in chronicles to designate the leading amir in the state, e.g., of Taḡačar (Ṭaḡājār) in 694/1295; and according to the Mamluk geographer ʿOmarī, this was
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Mashhad (Mashhad, Sabzavar), Khorasan (Herat)
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That would certainly be a useful source, with a significant number of details relevant to this topic. If you do manage to find a copy of the book, please send some relevant excerpts here.
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the regular usage. In this case the term would have been synonymous with ulusbegī “amir of the ulus (state),” and equivalent to the Arabic-Persian amīr al-omarāʾ.
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