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Allahverdi Khan ((ペルシア語:اللّه وردی خان), (グルジア語:ალავერდი-ხანი)) (ca. 1560 – June 3, 1613) was an Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin who, initially a ''ghulām'' ("military slave"), rose to high office in the Safavid state. ==Biography== Allahverdi was born a Christian Georgian, surnamed Undiladze. Like many of his compatriots and fellow Christian Georgians, Armenians and Circassians, he was taken prisoner in the course of one of the Caucasian campaigns of Shah Tahmasp I of Persia and converted to Islam to be trained for service in the ghulam army, a special military structure consisting of Christian captives that was created later by Abbas I of Persia to counterpoise the power of the Turkic Kizilbash, which constituted the nucleus of the Safavid military aristocracy.〔Shah ʹAbbas & the arts of Isfahan, by Anthony Welch, pg. 17〕 In 1589, he took part in the assassination of the powerful minister (''wakil'') and kingmaker Morshed-Kholi Khan Ostaglu, who was secretly condemned to death by Shah Abbas I. As a result, he was made sultan and a governor of Jorpadagan near Isfahan, the Safavid capital. He then rapidly rose to higher offices and was appointed commander of the ghulam army, thus becoming one of the five principal officers in the Safavid administration by 1595/6. In the same year, Shah Abbas I appointed him the governor of Fars, a move that made him the fist ghulam to attain equal status with the Kizilbash emirs. This act also meant that the large provinces would no longer be administered by semi-autonomous and frequently self-minded Kizilbash emirs, but by officers appointed directly by the shah. In 1596/7, he was transferred to the governorship of Kohgiluyeh. In August 1598, Allahverdi Khan, as a ''sardar-e-lashkar'' (commander-in-chief), was instrumental in recovering Herat from the Uzbek tribes and shortly after this victory was ordered by the shah to put a powerful Kizilbash emir Farhad Khan Qaramanlu to death. This act turned Allahverdi Khan into the most powerful man in the Persian Empire after the shah. From 1600 onwards, counseled by the English gentleman of fortune, Sir Robert Sherley, he reorganized the army and strengthened it by increasing the number of ghulam troops from 4,000 to 25,000. Allahverdi Khan led the Persian armies in a number of successful campaigns on both the eastern and the western frontiers of the Safavid empire, including the 1601-2 conquest of Bahrain. He died on 3 June 1613.〔http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/allahverdi-khan-d-1〕 He had two sons named Daud Khan and Imam-Quli Khan, who would like their father, continue to play an important role in the Safavid Empire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allahverdi Khan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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