The Tofangchi-aghasi, also spelled Tufangchi-aqasi, and otherwise known as the Tofangchi-bashi, was the commander of the Safavid Empire's musketeer corps. The tofangchi-aghasi was assisted by numerous officers, i.e. minbashis, yuzbashis, dahbashis, as well as an administrative staff (i.e. vizier, mostoufi). Though the tofangchi-aghasi was considered to be a high-ranking office on paper, de facto, it was one of the lowest on the "military totem-pole" compared to the other commanding offices. Nevertheless, the post was generally held by scions of noble families.
List of Tofangchi-aghasis
Reign of Ismail I
- Mirza Shah Hosein (1516)
Reign of Tahmasp I
- Kur Hasan (1529)
- ?
- Mir Saheb-e Qoshun (1576)
Reign of Ismail II
- Mir Saheb-e Qoshun (1576)
- ?
Reign of Mohammad Khodabanda
- ?
Reign of Abbas I
- Esma'il Beg (1614-1615)
- Zaman Beg (1629)[a]
Reign of Shah Safi
- Rostam Beg (1630)
- Mir Fatteh Qumesheh'i (1634-1635)
- Aqa Taher (1635-1643)[b]
Reign of Abbas II
- Aqa Taher (1635-1643)
- Qalander Soltan Chuleh (1643-1661)[c]
- Budaq Soltan (1661-1668)
Reign of Suleiman I
- Budaq Soltan (1661-1668)
- Sheikh 'Ali Khan Zanganeh (1668-1669)
- Abbas Beg Zanganeh (1669-1670)[d]
- Kaykhosrow Khan (1670-1674)
- Hajji 'Ali Khan Zanganeh (1674-1691)
- Eshaq Khan (?)
Reign of Sultan Husayn
- Eshaq Khan (?)
- Musa Khan (1711-1715)
- Hosein Ali Khan (1717-1720)[e]
- Mohammad Ali Khan Mokri (1720-1722)
Reign of Tahmasp II
- Ahmad Khan (1723)
- Shahverdi Khan Cheshmkazik (1724)[f]
Notes
Sources
- Floor, Willem (2001). Safavid Government Institutions. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. pp. 176–188. ISBN 978-1568591353.
- Matthee, Rudi (2012). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. I.B.Tauris. p. 258. ISBN 978-1845117450.
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