{{short description|Iranian general and politician}} [[File:'Arzah-Dasht by Div Sultan.jpg|thumb|right|Persian letter by Div Sultan, wherein he informs Shah Ismail I about the Uzbeks and corrects the report that the Kazakhs had arrived at Samarkand and that 'Ubayd has died. Jani Bayg has escaped from Balkh, crossed the river, sacked Karki and is in Qarshi at present. The writer of the document performs his duty in Khorasan. Dated 1510–1511]]
'''Div Sultan Rumlu''' ({{langx|fa|دیو سلطان روملو}}) was a Turkmen military commander and politician from the Rumlu clan,<ref name="Cambridge-Iran"> {{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=William Bayne |last2=Jackson |first2=Peter |last3=Lockhart |first3=Lawrence |date=1986 |title=The Cambridge History of Iran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ0-2BIR8BQC&q=DivDiv+Sultan+Rumlu&pg=PA234 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=236 |isbn=0521200946 |access-date=September 16, 2015}}</ref> one of the seven chief Qizilbash tribes which provided crack troops for Safavid guard.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rayfield |first=Donald |author-link=Donald Rayfield|date=2013 |title=Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxQpmg_JIpwC&q=Div+Sultan+Rumlu |publisher=Reaktion Books |page=166 |isbn=978-1780230702 |access-date=September 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hasan |first1=Rūmlū |last2=Steddon |first2=Charles Norman |date=1934 |title= Chronicle of the Early Safawīs: Being the Ahsanuʼt-Tawārīkh of Hasan-i-Rūmlū, Volume 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJqgAAAAMAAJ&q=Div+Sultan+Rumlu |publisher=Oriental Institute |pages=78–93 |access-date=September 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Roxburgh |first=David J. |date=2001 |title=Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-century Iran |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8mpDcunylsC&q=Div+Sultan+Rumlu |publisher=BRILL Publishers |page=21 |isbn=9004113762 |access-date=September 16, 2015}}</ref> In 1516-1527, he served as the governor (''hakem'') of the Erivan Province (also known as Chokhur-e Sa'd).{{sfn|Nasiri|Floor|2008|page=171}} From 1524 to 1527, he was a powerful regent to Shah Tahmasp I, who was then underage.<ref>{{cite book |last=Potts |first=Daniel T. |date=2014 |title=Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8c3QAgAAQBAJ&q=Div+Sultan+Rumlu&pg=PA230 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=229–230 |isbn=978-0199330799 |access-date=September 16, 2015}}</ref> Div Sultan Rumlu had summer quarters at Lar Valley in the Alborz Mountains. He was killed in a power struggle in 1527.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Colin P. |date=2011 |title=New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBnHBQAAQBAJ&q=Div+Sultan+Rumlu&pg=PT340 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1136991936 |access-date=September 16, 2015}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * {{cite book|last1=Nasiri|first1=Ali Naqi|last2=Floor|first2=Willem M.|title=Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran: A Third Manual of Safavid Administration|date=2008|publisher=Mage Publishers|isbn=978-1933823232}}
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