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'''Khvaja Qivam al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Khvafi''' was a [[Persians|Persian]] bureaucrat who served the [[Timurid Empire]] in the late 15th-century.
His father was a provincial judge from [[Khaf County|Khwaf]] in the [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] region of eastern Iran.{{sfn|Manz|2007|p=69}} According to the contemporary historian Isfizari, Qivam was a descendant of [[Fasih Khwafi]]'s great-grandfather Khvaja Majd, who ruled in Khvaf in the early 14th-century.{{sfn|Manz|2007|pp=68–69}} In 1471/2, the Timurid ruler of Khorasan, [[Sultan Husayn Bayqara]] ({{reign|1469|1506}}), appointed Qivam al-Din as his [[vizier]].{{sfn|Subtelny|1988|p=136}} Together with another vizier Khvaja Afzal al-Din Muhammad Kirmani (appointed in 1473/4), Qivam al-Din plotted to have the powerful bureaucrat [[Majd al-Din Muhammad Khvafi]] dismissed through a charge of embezzlement.{{sfn|Subtelny|2007|pp=85–86}} Pressurized by these two highly competent bureaucrats, Sultan Husayn first had Majd al-Din jailed (as was the tradition), and then started an investigation into the charge. An error on the part of the accusers, resulted in the release of Majd al-Din and drop of the charge.{{sfn|Subtelny|2007|p=86}} In June 1498, Qivam al-Din was executed through a plot led by his former allies, Afzal al-Din and [[Ali-Shir Nava'i]].{{sfn|Subtelny|2007|pp=100–101}}
== References ==
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== Sources ==
* {{cite book|last=Manz|first=Beatrice Forbes|author-link=Beatrice Forbes Manz|title=Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfkpHz9q_RMC|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-46284-6}}
* {{cite journal|last=Subtelny|first=Maria|author-link= |year=1988 |title=Centralizing Reform and Its Opponents in the Late Timurid Period |journal=Iranian Studies |volume=21 |issue=1/2|pages=129–151 |doi=10.1080/00210868808701712|jstor=4310597 }} {{Registration required}}
* {{cite book|last=Subtelny|first=Maria|title=Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QqryxbUEkbUC|year=2007|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-16031-6}}
[[Category:Officials of the Timurid Empire]]
[[Category:Viziers of the Timurid Empire]]
[[Category:15th-century Iranian people]]
[[Category:1498 deaths]]
[[Category:15th-century births]]
[[Category:People from Razavi Khorasan province]]