Shamlu

The Shamlu tribe (Şamlı, Şamlu), also known as the Shamli tribe, was one of the seven original and the most powerful Qizilbash tribes of Turcoman origin in Iran.



List of the Khans of Shamlu

 * Ahmad Sultan Shamlu
 * Abdu Beg Shamlu ( Father in law of Ismail I )
 * Husein Khan Shamlu ( The most powerful qizilbash Khan, executed by Shah Tahmasp in 1534)
 * Hossein Khan Shamlu ( Governor of Lors Pushtkuh- Province of Lorestan )
 * Hasan Khan Shamlu
 * Mirza Vali Khan Shamlu (Governor)
 * Ali Gholi Khan Shamlu (aka Haji Ali Qizilbash Mazandarani Governor of Khorassan in 1576 and chief of the armies under Shah Abbas I en 1588 )
 * JĀNI BEG KHAN BIGDELI SHĀMLU(d. 1645), ishik-āqāsi-bāshi (master of ceremony) and qurchi-bāshi (head of the tribal guards) under the Safavid Shah Ṣafi I (r. 1629–42) and Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642–66).
 * Sinan Khan Shamlu (Ambassador of Shah AbbasI to Emperor Rudolph II of Habsburg)
 * Muhamad Gholi Khan Bigdili-e Shamlu
 * Dormish Khan Shamlu (Brother in law of Shah Ismail I and Governor of Isfahan )
 * Murteza Gulu Khan Shamlu-Ardabili (invented a style of calligraphy called "Shikasta Nastaʿlīq")
 * Abbas Gholi Khan Shamlu-Shahsevan (Governor of Herat, 1812)
 * Mu'min Khan Shamlu (1699–1707, Grand Vizier )
 * Mohammed Zaman Khan Shamlu (1711)
 * Muhamad Ali Khan Bigdili-e Shamlu (c.1722, Grand Vizier )
 * Zaynal Khan Shamlu
 * Murshid Gholi Khan Ustajlu-e Shamlu
 * Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou I
 * Mirza Ali Akbar Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou
 * Manouchehr Ghiaie-e Shamloo (Governor of Tehran)
 * Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou II (Architect and Aide de Camp of the Impériale Court of Iran under Emperor Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)
 * Farhad Khan Ghiaï-e Chamlou( 1957 )