Hatim Beg Urdubadi

Hatim "Beg" Urdubadi (Persian: حاتم بیگ اردوبادی‎‎), was a Iranian aristocrat from the Urdubadi family, who served as the vizier of the Safavid king (shah) Abbas I (r. 1588–1629) from 1591 to 1610/1.

Biography

Mirza Talib was the son of Bahram Khan Urdubadi, the lord of Urdubad, the homeland of the Urdubadi family, an Iranian family which was descended from the medieval philosopher and polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.^[1] Hatim later succeeded his father as the lord of Urdubad, and received the title of "Beg" (lord).^[2] In the 1570s, Hatim Beg served as the vizier of the governor of Kerman, Vali Beg Yuz Bashi Afshar and was later appointed as the accountant (mustawfi al-mamalik) of Yazd. In 1591, Hatim Beg was appointed as the mustawfi al-mamalik of all of Iran, and six months later was appointed by shah Abbas I as his vizier.^[3]

Hatim Beg later died 1610/1 near Urmia during an expedition.^[3] He had a son named Mirza Talib Khan, who would later serve as the vizier of shah Safi (r. 1629–1642) from 1632 until 1633, where he was assassinated by the eunuch Saru Taqi, due to a personal hatred he had towards the Urdubadi family, the reason being that Hatim Beg had denied to give Saru Taqi's father a post which he had asked for.^[1]

References

1. Babaie 2004, pp. 42-43.
2. Babaie 2004, p. 160.
3. Mitchell 2009, p. 166.

Sources

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• Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–281. ISBN 9780857716613.
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• Mitchell, Colin P. (2009). The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–304. ISBN 0857715887.