Amir Zakariya Explained

Khvajeh Mohammad Kujuji Tabrizi, better known by his later title of Amir Zakariya, was a Persian bureaucrat from the Kujuji family, who served as the vizier of the Safavid shah (king) Ismail I from 1501 to 1507.

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