Vekil#Wakil
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Vekil or Vakil was the term used for the deputies and de facto prime ministers of the Mughal Emperor in Mughal administration. He was considered the most powerful person after Emperor in the Mughal Empire.{{Cite book|last=Malik|first=Dr Malti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMg-DAAAQBAJ&dq=vakil+of+mughal+administration&pg=PA209|title=History of India|date=1943|publisher=New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd|isbn=978-81-7335-498-4|language=en}} Vakil was one of the highest positions in the hierarchy of Safavid Iran, denoting the viceroy in the administrative and some religious affairs of the realm.{{cite book | title = Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire | year = 2008 | publisher = I.B.Tauris | location = | editor-last = | editor-first = | last = Newman | first = Andrew J. | isbn = 978-0857716613 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KPgBAwAAQBAJ&q=false}}{{rp|17}}
While in the Ottoman Empire, the viziers were considered "absolute delegates" (vekil-i mutlak) of the Ottoman Sultan.
Etymology
Vakel or Vakil was the Arabic term used in the meaning of "representative" or "proxy".{{cn|date=October 2024}}
Wakil
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{{For|the president of Zanzibar|Idris Abdul Wakil}}
In Islamic law, a wakīl ({{lang|ar|وكيل}}), in older literature vakeel, is a deputy, delegate or agent who acts on behalf of a principal. It can refer to an attorney, a diplomat or the custodian of a mosque or religious order.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |editor-first=John L. |editor-last=Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003 |title=Wakil}}
Wakīl is also one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "dependable", and is used as a personal name, a short form of Abdul Wakil, meaning "servant of the dependable".
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Further reading
- {{cite book | title = The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric | year = 2009 | publisher = I.B.Tauris | location = | editor-last = | editor-first = | last = Mitchell | first = Colin P. | isbn = 978-0857715883 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=APcBAwAAQBAJ&q=false}}
- Gauri Sharma. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SRtuAAAAMAAJ Prime Ministers Under the Mughals, 1526-1707]. Kanishka Publishers, Distributors. 2006.
- Jennings, "The Office of Vekil (Wakil) in the 17th Century Ottoman Sharia Courts" (1975) [https://books.google.com/books?id=N9_75Qmzdp8C 42] Studia Islamica 147. Reprinted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=yjVpAAAAMAAJ Studies on Ottoman Social History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries], Isis Press, 1999.
Category:Islamic legal occupations
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