{{Short description|Historical Turkoman tribe in Iran}} [[File:Amid Khani Ustajalu Oghlu Mehmed Khan.jpg|thumb|Mohammad Khan Ustajlu at the Battle of Chaldiran in an Ottoman miniature from Hoja Sa'd al-Din's ''Taj al-Tewarih''.]] [[File:Secaatname 0016. Tokhmaq Khan at the Battle of Childir in 1578. Secaatname (1586).jpg|thumb|Tokhmaq Khan Ustajlu (طوقماغ خان) at the Battle of Çıldır in 1578. ''Secaatname'' (1586).<ref name="Pap55">{{harvnb|Papuashvili|2020|p=55}} "The right upper part of the miniature shows the scene of wounding the Iranian commander – Kara Khan by the Ottoman soldier. And below there is the image of Tokmak Khan drawing the bow (Arif,1914)."</ref>]] The '''Ustajlu''' were a powerful Turkoman tribe, with a main presence in Azerbaijan (in the northwest of Persia) and in Khorasan (north central Persia). They were particularly active during the early Safavid period in the 16th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Farrokh |first1=Kaveh |title=Iran at War: 1500-1988 |date=20 December 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78096-221-4 |page=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6yHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT45 |language=en}}</ref> The Ustajlu were particularly powerful during the reign of Shah Ismail (1504–1524), as they held some of the most important positions in the Safavid state, including the position of ''qurchibashi'' (Commander of the Shah's guard regiment).<ref name="BFM">{{cite book |last1=Forbes Mans |first1=Beatrice |title=Nomads in the Middle East |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-81629-8 |page=175 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbhIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA175 |language=en}}</ref> Other powerful tribes (''oymaqs'') were the Shamlu and the Tekkelu.<ref name="BFM"/>
Some notable people with the surname include:
*Abdollah Khan Ustajlu (died 1566/67), Iranian dignitary of Turkoman origin *Badr Khan Ustajlu, Turkoman military officer *Evaz Beg Ustajlu, Turkoman military officer *Mohammad Khan Ustajlu (died 1514), Iranian military commander *Mohammad Khan Tokhmaq Ustajlu, 16th-century Iranian official *Salman Khan Ustajlu, Turkoman military leader
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==Sources== * {{cite journal |last1=Papuashvili |first1=Tamar |title=The Childiri Battle According To Şecâ'atnâme |journal=2nd Intertational Conference on Research in Social Sciences and Humanities |date=10 December 2020 |page=55 |doi=10.33422/2nd.icrsh.2020.12.08 |url=https://www.dpublication.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/35-5035.pdf}}
Category:Turkmen tribes