ʿAlī Mardān Khān

…alliance with the Bakhtyārī chief ʿAlī Mardān Khan in an effort to seize Isfahan—then the political center of Iran—from Shah Rokh’s vassal, Abū al-Fatḥ Bakhtyārī. Once this goal was achieved, Karīm Khan and ʿAlī Mardān agreed that Shah Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī’s grandson, a boy named Abū Ṭurāb, should be proclaimed…