administrative title that was used during the Caliphate and Ottoman Empire to designate governors of administrative divisions
Mehemet Ali Viceroy of Egypt, by Auguste Couder, 1841. Rostom (Rostam Khan), Safavid viceroy of Kartli, Georgia.
Wāli, wā'lī or vali (from Arabic: والي) is an administrative title used in the Muslim world to designate the governor of an administrative division. It was used in a number of historical Islamic states, including the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman empires. The division governed by a wāli is called a wilaya; in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding term was vilayet. The title remains in use in some countries influenced by Arabic or Ottoman administrative traditions.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).