Mīrzā Muḥammad Sārū Taqī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Matthee, Rudolph P.
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Mīrzā Muḥammad " Sārū " Taqī (b. c.972/1565, d. 1055/1645) was a Ṣafavid grand vizier. The scion of a middle-ranking family of mustawfī s (comptrollers) in Tabriz, Mīrzā Muḥammad "Sārū" (blond) Taqī, was neither a member of the Qizilbāsh (Turkmen tribes who wore red caps to signify their support of the founders of the Ṣafavid dynasty) nor, strictly speaking, a ghulām (slave-soldier) in the sense of being a converted Christian from the Caucasus. He first made a name for himself as mushrif (financial supervisor) of the ruler