Vekil

VakelorVakilwas the term used for the deputies andde factoprime ministers of theMughal EmperorinMughal administration.He was considered the most powerful person after Emperor in theMughal Empire.^[1]Vakilwas one of the highest positions in thehierarchyofSafavid Iran,denoting theviceroyin the administrative and some religious affairs of the realm.^[2]^: 17

While in theOttoman Empire,thevizierswere considered "absolute delegates" (vekil-i mutlak) of theOttoman Sultan.

Etymology

VakelorVakilwas the Arabic term used in the meaning of "representative" or "proxy".

Wakil

InIslamic law,awakīl(وكيل), in older literaturevakeel,is a deputy, delegate or agent who acts on behalf of a principal. It can refer to an attorney, a diplomat or the custodian of a mosque orreligious order.^[3]

Wakīlis also one of thenames of God in Islam,meaning "dependable", and is used as a personal name, a short form ofAbdul Wakil,meaning "servant of the dependable".

References

^Malik, Dr Malti (1943).History of India.New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd.ISBN 978-81-7335-498-4.
^Newman, Andrew J. (2008).Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire.I.B.Tauris.ISBN 978-0857716613.
^Esposito, John L., ed. (2003). "Wakil".The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.Oxford University Press.

Mitchell, Colin P. (2009).The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric.I.B.Tauris.ISBN 978-0857715883.
Gauri Sharma.Prime Ministers Under the Mughals, 1526-1707.Kanishka Publishers, Distributors. 2006.
Jennings, "The Office of Vekil (Wakil) in the 17th Century Ottoman Sharia Courts" (1975)42Studia Islamica 147. Reprinted inStudies on Ottoman Social History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,Isis Press, 1999.

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[1] Malik, Dr Malti (1943).History of India.New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd.ISBN 978-81-7335-498-4.

[2] Newman, Andrew J. (2008).Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire.I.B.Tauris.ISBN 978-0857716613.

[3] Esposito, John L., ed. (2003). "Wakil".The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.Oxford University Press.

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