Badi-al Zaman Mirza Safavi was a Safavid prince, who was the son of prominent military leader Bahram Mirza Safavi, who was the youngest son of Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid empire.
Badi-al Zaman had two brothers named Ibrahim Mirza and Soltan Hosayn Mirza.[1] When Badi-al Zaman's father died in 1549, he, along with his other siblings were taken care of by Tahmasp, who even announced Badi-al Zaman as his own son. Badi al-Zaman was appointed as the governor of Sistan in 1557, and married Pari Khan Khanum (who was at that time 10 years old). However, since she was Tahmasp's favored daughter, she was not allowed to go alongside her husband to Sistan.[2] According to the other historians, however, Pari Khan Khanum was only engaged to Badi al-Zaman, which according to Gholsorkhi seems more believable. Allegedly the marriage went no farther, since Pari Khan Khanum chose a bureaucratic life in the capital, alongside her father, over married life in Sistan.[3]
On 26 March 1577, Badi-al Zaman Mirza was assassinated in Qandahar on the orders of shah Ismail II (r. 1576–77).
References
edit- ^ Soucek 1988, pp. 523–524.
- ^ Parsadust 2009.
- ^ Gholsorkhi 1995, p. 146.
Sources
edit- Soucek, P. (1988). "BAHRĀM MĪRZĀ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 5. pp. 523–524.
- Parsadust, Manuchehr (2009). "PARIḴĀN ḴĀNOM". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- Mitchell, Colin P. (2009). The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–304. ISBN 978-0857715883.
- Gholsorkhi, Shohreh (1995). Pari Khan Khanum: A Masterful Safavid Princess. Vol. 28. Iranian Studies, vol. 28, no. 3/4. pp. 143–156. doi:10.1080/00210869508701833. ISBN 0857731815. JSTOR 4310940.
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