Shia cleric and grand Vizier of Safavid Shah Abbas II
Mirza Mohammad Mahdi Karaki (
Persian: میرزا محمد مهدی کرکی) was an
Iranian cleric and statesman, who served as the
grand Vizier of the
Safavid king (shah)
Abbas II (r. 1642-1666), and the latter's son and successor
Suleiman I (r. 1666–1694). He was the son of Mirza Habibollah Karaki, who served as the sadr-i mamalik (minister of religion) from 1632/3 till his death 1650.
Floor, Willem (2005), "A Note on The Grand Vizierate in Seventeenth Century Persia", Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 155 (2), Harrassowitz Verlag: 435–481,
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