Khvaja Qivam al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Khvafi

Khvaja Qivam al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Khvafi was a Persian bureaucrat who served the Timurid Empire in the late 15th-century.

His father was a provincial judge from Khwaf in the Khorasan region of eastern Iran.[1] According to the contemporary historian Isfizari, Qivam was a descendant of Fasih Khwafi's great-grandfather Khvaja Majd, who ruled in Khvaf in the early 14th-century.[2] In 1471/2, the Timurid ruler of Khorasan, Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r. 1469–1506), appointed Qivam al-Din as his vizier.[3] Together with another vizier Khvaja Afzal al-Din Muhammad Kirmani (appointed in 1473/4), Qivam al-Din plotted to have the powerful bureaucrat Majd al-Din Muhammad Khvafi dismissed through a charge of embezzlement.[4] Pressurized by these two highly competent bureaucrats, Sultan Husayn first had Majd al-Din jailed (as was the tradition), and then started an investigation into the charge. An error on the part of the accusers, resulted in the release of Majd al-Din and drop of the charge.[5] In June 1498, Qivam al-Din was executed through a plot led by his former allies, Afzal al-Din and Ali-Shir Nava'i.[6]

References
  1. Manz 2007, p. 69.
  2. Manz 2007, pp. 68–69.
  3. Subtelny 1988, p. 136.
  4. Subtelny 2007, pp. 85–86.
  5. Subtelny 2007, p. 86.
  6. Subtelny 2007, pp. 100–101.

Sources
  • Manz, Beatrice Forbes (2007). Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-46284-6.
  • Subtelny, Maria (1988). "Centralizing Reform and Its Opponents in the Late Timurid Period". Iranian Studies. 21 (1/2): 129–151. doi:10.1080/00210868808701712. JSTOR 4310597. (registration required)
  • Subtelny, Maria (2007). Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16031-6.
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