Shamlu

thumb|Likely depiction of Hoseyn Khan Shamlu seated, in the Sermon in a mosque scene of the [[Cartier Hafiz.]] thumb|Portrait of Ali-Qoli Khan Shamlu (aka Haji Ali Qizilbash Mazandarani) Governor of Khorassan in 1576 and chief of the armies under Shah Abbas I in 1588. thumb|Portrait of Zaynal Khan Shamlu, Ambassador of Shah Abbas I to the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II The Shamlu tribe (; ), also known as the Shamli tribe, was one of the seven original and the most powerful Azerbaijani speakingQizilbash tribes of Turcoman origin in Iran. thumb|right|Heydar Ghiai|Heydar Gholi Khan Gh

Turkoman nobleman

senior Safavid official under Shah Ismail I

Iranian calligrapher, poet and beglerbegi of Khurasan in Safavid era

guardian of future Safavid shah Abbas the Great (died 1589)

turkoman nobleman from the Shamlu tribe