Ali Mardan Khan
d. 1657/1067 AH
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. He was also an important patron of building projects in Kandahar and Lahore.


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Mehrnoush Soroush, “ʿALI MARDĀN KHAN,” Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2011, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ali-mardan-khan. Consulted February 14, 2023. Archive at: https://perma.cc/9X66-DEZ2.

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علی مردان خان
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ʿAli-Mardān Khan
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