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Ali Mardan Khan (Persian: علی مردان خان; died 2 April 1657 [1]) was a Kurdish [2] military leader and administrator, serving under the Safavid kings Shah Abbas I and Shah Safi, and later the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan.
ʿALI-MARDĀN KHAN (d. Lahore, 1657), military leader and administrator under Safavid kings Shah ʿAbbās I and Shah Ṣafi, and Mughal ruler Shah Jahān. The son of the Safavid official Ganj-ʿAli Khan (d. 1624), he was a governor of Kandahar who surrendered the city to the Mughals in 1638.
Ali Mardan Khan Bakhtiari (Persian: علیمردانخان بختیاری, romanized: Alī-Mardān Khān-e Bakhtīārī) was the Bakhtiari supreme chieftain (ilkhani) of the Chahar Lang branch, and major contender for supremacy in western Iran after the death of Nader Shah in 1747.
…alliance with the Bakhtyārī chief ʿAlī Mardān Khan in an effort to seize Eṣfahān—then the political center of Iran—from Shah Rokh’s vassal, Abū al-Fatḥ Bakhtyārī. Once this goal was achieved, Karīm Khan and ʿAlī Mardān agreed that Shah Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī’s grandson, a boy named Abū Ṭurāb, should be ...
The Tomb of Ali Mardan Khan (Urdu: مقبرہ علی مردان خان) is a Mughal era tomb in the city of Lahore, Pakistan that was built in the 1630s. [1] Ali Mardan Khan was a Kurd who first worked in the court of the Persian Safavid ruler Shah Safi, before moving to the Mughal court. [2] . The tomb is of octagonal plan. [3]
29 paź 2018 · Ali Mardan Khan is known in history as an eminent engineer, supervising construction of several royal buildings in Kashmir as per Shah Jahan’s orders, including digging of the Delhi canal, which runs between the Red Fort and the old city.
Ali Mardan Khan (Persian: علی مردان خان; died 2 April 1657 [1]) was a Kurdish [2] military leader and administrator, serving under the Safavid kings Shah Abbas I and Shah Safi, and later the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan. He was the son of Ganj Ali Khan.
