Hoseyn Khan Abdallu Shamlu

📅 آخر تحديث: ٤ أغسطس ٢٠٢٦
✍️ نُشر في: ٤ أغسطس ٢٠٢٦
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الموسوعة الحرة
A seated youth with his falcon. A leaf from the Read Persian Album commissioned by Hoseyn Khan Abdallu Shamlu. Herat (present-day Afghanistan), c.1600. The Morgan Library & Museum.

Hoseyn Khan Abdallu Shamlu (Persian: حسین خان عبداللو شاملو), was the Safavid-appointed governor of Herat from 1598 to 1618, and one of the most powerful rulers of Persia at that time.[1] He was a Turkoman of the Shamlu tribe.[2] He was succeeded as governor of Herat by his son Hasan Khan Shamlu. Before this assignment, Hoseyn Khan Shamlu had been governor of Qom, from at least 1591–92.[3]

Career

Hoseyn Khan Shamlu is also known for a magnificent album, a muraqqa, the Read Persian Album, made in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) ca. 1600. The album was compiled for him.[1] The album exemplifies a contemporary trend towards single-page compositions, away from illustrative miniatures, often portraying idealized youths.[1] Following the death of Ismail Shah, centralized artistic creation in the Safavid Empire has effectively fragmented between the various regions.[3]

Since his time in Qom, Hoseyn Khan Shamlu had sponsored an artist named Habiballah of Sava, who followed him to Herat. Habiballah of Sava later worked at the Safavid court of Isfahan from around 1606.[3]

References

  1. 123"Beautiful Youths: Dandies from the Read Persian Album". The Morgan Library & Museum. 1 November 2018.
  2. ↑Comstock-Skipp, Jaimee (2022). "Liberating the "Turkoman Prisoner": An Assessment of Bound Captives in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Persianate Works on Paper". In Andrew J. Newman (ed.). Iranian/Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction. Recovering 'Lost Voices'. Berlin: Gerlach Press. pp. 1–53 [7].
  3. 123"A Stallion". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2025.

Sources

  • فلور، ويليم (2008). الألقاب والمكافآت في إيران الصفوية: الدليل الثالث للإدارة الصفوية، بقلم ميرزا ​​نقي ناصري . دار ماج للنشر. ISBN 978-1933823232.