Mostowfi ol-Mamalek (title)

Mostowfi ol-Mamalek (Persian: مستوفی‌الممالک) was One of the positions and titles of the Iranian court from the Ilkhanid period to the Qajar era.

Mostowfi ol-Mamalek was the leader of all Mostowfis. During the Safavid period, Mostowfi ol-Mamalek was in charge of the finances of the whole country and all the financial and tax affairs of the country and the dismissal and installation of the Mostowfis were done by him. Mostowfi ol-Mamalek was a powerful official during this period, and at the end of Sultan Husayn's term they had the right to participate in the Supreme State Council.^[1]^[2]

After his coronation, Nader Shah divided the position of Mostowfi ol-Mamalek among four people and appointed each of them to be in charge of the finances of a part of the country, but during Karim Khan Zand Reign, this position was again given to one person.^[3] At the beginning of the Qajar period, with the expansion of the Qajar bureaucracy, Mostowfi ol-Mamalek became the second prime minister after the Shah.^[4] One of the most influential political-noble families of Iran in the Qajar period named Mostowfian Ashtiani family took their name from this title.^[5]

List of Mostowfi ol-Mamaleks of Iran

Four Mostowfis in Afsharid period

Mirza Mohamad Ali Mostowfi, Mostowfi of Fars
Mirza Ali Asghar Mostowfi, Mostowfi of Khorasan
Mirza Shafi Tabrizi, Mostowfi of Azarbaijan
Mirza Bagher Khorasani, Mostowfi of Iraq

Zand period

Mirza Mohamad Brojerdi, 1762-1781
Mirza Mohamad Sadeq Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, 1781-1794

Qajar period

Mirza Mohammad Zaki Ali Abadi, Mostowfi ol-Mamalek of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar
Mirza Yousof Ashrafi, Mostowfi ol-Mamalek in early Fath Ali Shah Qajar period
Hajji Mohammad Hossein Isfahani, 1806-1813
Abdullah Khan Amin al-Dawla, 1813-1823
Mirza Mohammad Ali Ashtiani, 1823-1826
Mirza Abul'Qasem Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, 1826-1830s
Mirza Hassan Mostowfi ol-Mamalek Ashtiani, 1830s-1845
Mirza Yusuf Ashtiani, 1845-1884
Mirza Hasan Ashtiani Mostowfi ol-Mamalek, 1884-1925 (Abolish the title by Reza Shah)

References

^ Esmaeili, Mojgan. "Administrative and executive structure in the Safavid period". Mazdak Nameh. 4: 40–46.
^ Bahramzadeh, Mohammad. "The structure of the administrative-financial system of the Safavid period and its comparison with the Qajar period". Journal of Iranian Studies. 7 (7): 26–62.
^ Imam Shoushtari, Mohammad Ali (1961). History of scales and cash in Islamic government. Tehran. p. 379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Khosrow Beigi, Houshang (October 1381). "Mostowfis and Mostowfi ol-Mamalek in Qajar period". Nameh Anjoman. 8 (2): 64–75.
^ Shaʻbānī, ʻAlī (2018). The Thousand Families: Commentary on Leading Political Figures of Nineteenth Century Iran. Lang, Peter. ISBN 978-1-4331-4386-1.

[1] Esmaeili, Mojgan. "Administrative and executive structure in the Safavid period". Mazdak Nameh. 4: 40–46.

[2] Bahramzadeh, Mohammad. "The structure of the administrative-financial system of the Safavid period and its comparison with the Qajar period". Journal of Iranian Studies. 7 (7): 26–62.

[3] Imam Shoushtari, Mohammad Ali (1961). History of scales and cash in Islamic government. Tehran. p. 379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[4] Khosrow Beigi, Houshang (October 1381). "Mostowfis and Mostowfi ol-Mamalek in Qajar period". Nameh Anjoman. 8 (2): 64–75.

[5] Shaʻbānī, ʻAlī (2018). The Thousand Families: Commentary on Leading Political Figures of Nineteenth Century Iran. Lang, Peter. ISBN 978-1-4331-4386-1.

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