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'''Mostowfi ol-Mamalek''' (Persian: مستوفی‌الممالک) was One of the positions and titles of the Iranian court from the [[Ilkhanate|Ilkhanid]] period to the [[Qajar Iran|Qajar]] era.
Mostowfi ol-Mamalek was the leader of all [[Mostowfi (title)|Mostowfis]]. During the [[Safavid Iran|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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Esmaeili|first=Mojgan|date=|title=Administrative and executive structure in the Safavid period|url=https://www.mazdaknameh.ir/Publish/PublishID/ArticleId/317|journal=Mazdak Nameh|volume=4|pages=40–46|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bahramzadeh|first=Mohammad|date=|title=The structure of the administrative-financial system of the Safavid period and its comparison with the Qajar period|url=https://www.magiran.com/paper/1991818|journal=Journal of Iranian Studies|volume=7|issue=7 |pages=26–62|via=}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Imam Shoushtari|first=Mohammad Ali|title=History of scales and cash in Islamic government|publisher=|year=1961|isbn=|location=Tehran|pages=379}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Khosrow Beigi|first=Houshang|date=October 1381|title=Mostowfis and Mostowfi ol-Mamalek in Qajar period|url=https://www.noormags.ir/view/fa/articlepage/5678/64/text|journal=Nameh Anjoman|volume=8|issue=2 |pages=64–75|via=}}</ref> One of the most influential political-noble families of Iran in the Qajar period named [[Mostowfian Ashtiani family]] took their name from this title.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shaʻbānī|first=ʻAlī|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zO4EtAEACAAJ|title=The Thousand Families: Commentary on Leading Political Figures of Nineteenth Century Iran|date=2018|publisher=Lang, Peter|isbn=978-1-4331-4386-1|language=en}}</ref>
== List of Mostowfi ol-Mamaleks of Iran ==
=== Four Mostowfis in Afsharid period ===
* Mirza Mohamad Ali Mostowfi, Mostowfi of [[Fars Province|Fars]]
* Mirza Ali Asghar Mostowfi, Mostowfi of [[Khorasan Province|Khorasan]]
* Mirza Shafi Tabrizi, Mostowfi of [[Azerbaijan (Iran)|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|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
* [[Mostowfi ol-Mamalek|Mirza Hasan Ashtiani Mostowfi ol-Mamalek]], 1884-1925 (Abolish the title by [[Reza Shah]])
== References ==
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