Divan-begi explained

Post:	Divan-begi
Style:	ʿĀlī-jāh (Serene Highness)
Type:	Moqarrab al-Khāqān
Member Of:	Jānqī (Council of State)
Residence:	Keshīk-Khāneh, Ālī Qāpū
Seat:	Isfahan, Safavid Iran
Nominator:	The King
Appointer:	The King
Termlength:	no fixed length
Formation:	1501
First:	Khadem Beg Talish
Unofficial Names:	[A]Mir-e Divan Divan-begi-bashi
Deputy:	Nāʿeb-e Dīvān-begī
Salary:	500 tomāns (officially)

The Divan-begi (Persian: دیوان‌بیگی|Dīvān-beīgī) was a high-ranking official in Judicial system of Safavid Iran (1501–1736), who acted as chief justice of Safavid capital and all over the kingdom's courts. It was the Persian form of Turkic Diwan-begi office, also known as the Imperial Chief Justice or Lord High Justice. Divan-begis presided over an appeals court for the kingdom, except for cases involving military officers or religious officials. Divan-begis had deputies to assist them.

List of Divan-begis

• Khadem Beg Talish (1501)
• Beiram Beg Qaramanlu (1501–1514)
• Husam Beg Qaramanlu (1514)
• Amir Harun (1514)

• Kopek Sultan Ustajlu (1524)
• Mohammad Khan Takkalu (1543/4)
• Ebrahim Khan (1541–1557)
• (1550)
• Badhr Khan (1551)
• Ebrahim Khan (1554–1566)

• Ebrahim Mirza (1576)
• Shahrokh Khan Dhu'l-Qadr (1576)

• Hamzeh Khan Ustajlu (1578)
• Salman Khan Ustajlu (1582)
• Ali-qoli Khan Ustajlu (1585)
• Ismail-qoli Khan(1586)

• Baktash Khan Afshar (1588)
• Khan Mohammad (1602/3)
• Ali-qoli Khan Shamlu (1605–1624)
• Agha Beg (1624–1627)
• Kalb-Ali Beg (1627–1629)

• Rostam Beg (1629–1635)
• Ali-qoli Beg (1635–1642)

• Morteza-qoli Beg Shamlu (1642–1645)
• Oghurlu Beg Qajar (28 November 1645–1657)
• Safi-qoli Beg (1657–1663)
• Evaz Beg (1663)

• Abbas-qoli Beg (1663–1666)
• Mohammad-qoli Khan (1666)
• ? (1666)
• Abu'l-Qasem Beg Shamlu (1670/1)
• Mohammad-Hassan (1673)
• Zeinal Khan (1680)
• Rostam Beg (1691)
• Musa Beg (1692–1696)

• Musa Beg (1692–1696)
• Ali-Mardan Khan (1696)
• Yar-Mohammad (1697/8)
• Safi-qoli Beg (1697/8)
• Levan Mirza (1700)
• Safi-qoli Khan (1712–February 1715)
• Ismail Beg (1715–1716)
• Jafar Khan (1716)
• Safi-qoli Khan (1716)
• Mohammad-qoli Khan (1718–1720)
• Rajab-Ali Beg (1720–1722)

• Mohammad-qoli Khan (1732)

Footnotes

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