Shaykh Ali Khan Zanganeh (
Persian: شیخ علی خان زنگنه, died 1689), was an
Iranian statesman of
Kurdish origin, who served as the
grand vizier of the
Safavid king (shah)
Suleiman I (r. 1666–1694) from 1669 to 1689. Due to his efforts in reforming the declining Iranian economy, he has been called the "Safavid
Amir Kabir" in modern historiography.[1]
Shaykh Ali Khan's destiny is similar to that of many other Iranian grand viziers—from
Hasanak under the
Ghaznavids to
Amir Kabir under the
Qajars—and is owing, in an established sense, to the ambivalence of the grand vizier's position in the Iranian bureaucratic practice.
Shaykh Ali Khan served as the commander of the empire's
musketeer corps (tofangchi-aghasi) from 1668 till June 1669.[6]
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