Bektash Khan Ustajlu
Bektāš Khan, the governor of Marv; he belonged to the Dānālu
clan of the Ostājlu tribe. He had started his career as the vakīl of Moršedqolā
Khan Yakān in Khorasan, and in Iraq he had acted as his dārugā at
Isfahan. After the execution of Moršedqolā, Bektāš Khan, at the Shah’s bidding,
was for a time in charge of some of the rural districts of Isfahan. But, after
his dismissal from this position, he was for a time in straitened
circumstances. In the Year of the Dog, 1006/1597-98, when Khorasan was
reconquered, Bektāš Khan was raised to the status of emir
and appointed governor of Mārūčāq, where he served with distinction and
played a large part in the pacification of that frontier. In the Year of the
Rat, 1008/1600, when Moḥammad Khan
Özbeg was removed from office as the penalty for rebelling, the governorship of
Marv-e Šāhijān was given to Bektāš Khan. He fought many battles against
the Uzbegs along the frontier and was uniformly successful in these engagements.
This year, in his tenth year in this office, he died, and his governorship was
given to Meḥrab Khan Qājār, the governor of Mašhad.
Eskandar Beg Monshi, Tārikh-e ʿĀlamārā-ye ʿAbbāsi, tr. R. M. Savory as
History of Shah ʿAbbâs the Great, 2 vols., Boulder, Colorado, 1978, p. 1230.
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