The Relations between the Viziers and Emirs during the Timurid Period (A Case Study of the Relation of Qiyāth al-Dīn Pīr Aḥmad Khwāfī to the Timurid Emirs and Viziers)

تاریخ و فرهنگ

Article 2, Volume 44, Issue 2 - Serial Number 89, February 2013   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/history.v0i0.22944

Authors

Maryam Awra‘ī Qadīrī^* ; ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Qanawāt; Jawād ‘Abbāsī

Abstract

In the Timurid period, the emirs were mostly Turkish-Mongol and the viziers were Iranian. The non-distinction between the civil and military affairs and the power and authority of the emirs and the attempts of the Iranian bureaucrats in maintaining their own
interests, had prepared the ground for the permanent conflict and competition between them. The long vizierate period of Khawja Qiyāth al-Dīn Pīr Aḥmad Khwāfī (d. 858/1454), one of the famous viziers of Shāhrukh Timurid, who was able to maintain his position against the emirs, is of high importance in the Timurid history. In this article, the relations between the institution of vizierate and emirate is studied, with an emphasis on the vizierate of Khawja Qiyāth al-Dīn Pīr Aḥmad,

Keywords

vizierate; emirate; Timurid emirs; Pīr Aḥmad Khwāfī