Dawatdar (Persian: دواتدار) or Dawadar (Arabic: دوادار), also Duwaydar and Amir Dawat, was a senior court office in medieval Islamic states. Meaning 'the...
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principal ministers—the vizier, the commander of the soldiers, and the dawatdar (keeper of the inkpot)—to the Mongols; all three likely refused, and three...
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10. Ala-ud-Daula Aqa Mulla (son of 12) 5. Asmat Begam 1. Mumtaz Mahal 12. Aqa Mulla Dawatdar Qazwini 6. Ghiyas ud-din 'Ali Asaf Khan 3. Diwanji Begum...
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Depiction of the Siege of Baghdad in Rashid al-Din's Jami al-tawarikh; the soldiers on the pontoons block the dawatdar from escaping down the Tigris....
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early November 1480, a large Mamluk army under Yashbak min Mahdi, who was dawātdār-i kabīr or executive secretary to the Mamluk sultan Qaitbay, laid siege...
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frictions. He died there in 1576/7. He was married to a daughter of Aqa Mulla Dawatdar. After his death, his youngest son Mirza Ghiyas Beg fell into disgrace...
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early November 1480, a large Mamluk army under Yashbak min Mahdi, who was dawātdār-i kabīr or executive secretary to the Mamluk sultan Qaitbay, laid siege...
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sought pardon from the Ottoman sultan. After Qaitbay's death in 1492, dawatdar (head of the chancery) Akbirdi led an unsuccessful insurrection in Cairo...
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