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
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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
[edit]- ^Malik, Dr Malti (1943).History of India.New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd.ISBN978-81-7335-498-4.
- ^Newman, Andrew J. (2008).Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire.I.B.Tauris.ISBN978-0857716613.
- ^Esposito, John L., ed. (2003). "Wakil".The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.Oxford University Press.
Further reading
[edit]- Mitchell, Colin P. (2009).The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric.I.B.Tauris.ISBN978-0857715883.
- 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.