# Shamlu

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[[File:Hosayn Khan Shamlu seated.jpg|thumb|Likely depiction of [Hoseyn Khan Shamlu](/source/Hoseyn_Khan_Shamlu) seated, in the ''Sermon in a mosque'' scene of the ''[Cartier Hafiz](/source/Cartier_Hafiz)''.<ref name="Blair">"Shaykhzada, a painter from Herat, added two of these paintings, probably in the late 1520s. A small graffito at the bottom of the painting often dubbed “Sermon in a mosque” says that it is his work; he probably also painted the polo scene, which is executed in a similar style. Priscilla Soucek suggested that the main figure in Shaykhzada’s two paintings may represent his patron, perhaps Husayn Khan
Shamlu, depicted in both as a mature man with a full mustache." in {{harvnb|Blair|2014|p=239}}</ref>{{sfn|Soucek|1990|pp=55-58}}]]
[[File:AliGholiKhanShamlu.jpg|thumb|Portrait of [Ali-Qoli Khan Shamlu](/source/Ali-Qoli_Khan_Shamlu) (aka ''Haji Ali Qizilbash Mazandarani'') Governor of [Khorassan](/source/greater_Khorasan) in 1576 and chief of the armies under Shah Abbas I in 1588.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Necipogulu |first1=Gulru |last2=Roxburgh |first2=David J. |title=Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World |date=July 2000 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-11669-6 |page=64, fig.20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6aQSy07yzR0C&pg=PA65 |language=en}}</ref><ref>"Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800, Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Mars 2007,  {{ISBN|978-0-521-78041-4}}</ref>]]
[[File:Zaynal Khan Shamlu.jpg|thumb|Portrait of [Zeynal Khan Shamlu](/source/Zeynal_Khan_Shamlu), Ambassador of [Shah Abbas I](/source/Shah_Abbas_I) to the Court of the [Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II](/source/Rudolf_II%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor)]]
The '''Shamlu tribe''' ({{langx|fa|ایل شاملو}}; {{Langx|az|Şamlı, Şamlu}}), also known as the '''Shamli tribe''', was one of the seven original and the most powerful [Qizilbash](/source/Qizilbash) tribes of [Turcoman](/source/Turkoman_(ethnonym)) origin in [Iran](/source/Iran).
[[File:Ghiai28.jpg|thumb|right|[Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou II](/source/Heydar_Ghiai), architect, dressed as Imperial Aide de Camp (Tehran, 1973)]]

==List of the Khans of Shamlu==
*Ahmad [Sultan](/source/Sultan)  Shamlu
*Abdu [Beg](/source/Bey) Shamlu ( Father in law of [Ismail I](/source/Ismail_I) )
*[Hossein Beg Laleh Shamlu](/source/Hossein_Beg_Laleh_Shamlu)
*[Husein Khan Shamlu](/source/Hoseyn_Khan_Shamlu) ( The most powerful qizilbash Khan, executed by Shah Tahmasp in 1534)
*Hossein Khan Shamlu ( Governor of Lors Pushtkuh- [Province of Lorestan](/source/Lorest%C4%81n_Province) )
*[Hasan Khan Shamlu](/source/Husain_Khan_Shamlu) (Governor of Herat, circa 1600)
*Mirza Vali Khan Shamlu (Governor)
*[Ali Gholi Khan Shamlu](/source/Ali-Qoli_Khan_Shamlu) (aka ''Haji Ali Qizilbash Mazandarani'' Governor of [Khorassan](/source/greater_Khorasan) in 1576 and chief of the armies under Shah Abbas I en 1588 )<ref>"Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800, Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Mars 2007,  {{ISBN|978-0-521-78041-4}}</ref>
*JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI SHĀMLU(d. 1645), ishik-āqāsi-bāshi (master of ceremony) and qurchi-bāshi (head of the tribal guards) under the Safavid Shah Ṣafi I (r. 1629–42) and Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642–66).<ref name="ŠĀMLU">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Matthee |first=Rudi | title= JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI ŠĀMLU | encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica | accessdate=2012-09-17|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jani-beg-khan-bigdeli-samlu}}</ref>
*Sinan Khan Shamlu (Zaynal Khan Shamlu, Ambassador of Shah Abbas I to Emperor Rudolph II of Habsburg)
*Muhamad Gholi Khan Bigdili-e Shamlu
*Dormish Khan Shamlu (Brother in law of Shah Ismail I and Governor of [Isfahan](/source/Isfahan_Province) )
*Murteza Gulu Khan Shamlu-Ardabili (invented a style of calligraphy called "[Shikasta Nastaʿlīq](/source/Shikasta_Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq)")
*Abbas Gholi Khan Shamlu-Shahsevan (Governor of [Herat](/source/Herat), 1812)
*Mu'min Khan Shamlu (1699–1707, [Grand Vizier](/source/Grand_Vizier) )<ref>"Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire", Andrew J. Newman,Edt. I. B. Tauris 30 Mars, 2006, p.105  {{ISBN|1-86064-667-0}}
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*Mohammed Zaman Khan Shamlu (1711)
*Muhamad Ali Khan Bigdili-e Shamlu (c.1722, [Grand Vizier](/source/Grand_Vizier) )<ref name="ŠĀMLU"/>
*Zaynal Khan Shamlu
*Murshid Gholi Khan Ustajlu-e Shamlu
*Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou I
*Mirza Ali Akbar Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou
*Manouchehr Ghiaie-e Shamloo  (Governor of Tehran)
*[Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou II](/source/Heydar_Ghiai) (Architect and [Aide de Camp](/source/Aide-de-camp) of the Impériale Court of Iran under Emperor Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)<ref name="Architecture Mediterraneenne 2001, pp. 130-60">Architecture Mediterraneenne, No 55, "From father to son, a dynasty of builders", Marseille, 2001, pp. 130-60</ref>
*Farhad Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou( 1957 )<ref name="Architecture Mediterraneenne 2001, pp. 130-60"/>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last1=Blair |first1=Sheila |title=Text and image in medieval Persian art |date=2014 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-0748655786 }}
* Yves Bomati and Houchang Nahavandi,''Shah Abbas, Emperor of Persia,1587-1629'', 2017, ed. Ketab Corporation, Los Angeles, {{ISBN|978-1595845672}}, English translation by Azizeh Azodi.
* Roman Ghirshman, ''Persia El reino immortal'', Londres, 1971, p.&nbsp;141
* J.P. Roux, " Histoire des Turcs", Paris, 1984, pp.&nbsp;253–54
*David Morgan. "Shah Isma'il and the Establishment of Shi'ism"chpt. 12 of his Medieval Persia: 1040–1797, Longman, New York, 1988, pp.&nbsp;112–123.
* {{cite book |last=Soucek |first=Priscilla |chapter=Sultan Muhammad Tabrizi: Painter at the Safavid Court |title=Persian masters: five centuries of paintings |date=1990 |publisher=Marg Publications |location=Bombay |isbn=978-8185026107 |pages=55-58}}

==See also==
*[Qizilbash](/source/Qizilbash)
*[Safavid dynasty](/source/Safavid_dynasty)
*[Farhad Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou](/source/%3Afr%3AYves_Ghiai) (in French)
*[Ahmad Shamlou](/source/Ahmad_Shamlou)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite encyclopedia |last= Doerfer |first=Gerhard | title= BĪGDELĪ | encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica | accessdate=2012-09-17|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bigdeli-or-begdeli-also-bagdilu-a-former-turkish-tribe}}
*[http://www.ghiai-chamlou.com/ History of the Khans of Ghiaī-e Chamlou]

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