Ala al-Din Siddiq Kujuji
Persian bureaucrat
Ala al-Din Siddiq Kujuji (fl. mid 15th-century) was a Persian bureaucrat from the Kujuji family, who served as a vizier to the Qara Qoyunlu leader Jahan Shah (r. 1438–1467) from c. 1447 to 1455/6. Siddiq later played a key role in the succession struggle that ensured after Jahan Shah's death.
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Zakrzewski, Daniel (2018). "Local Elites and Dynastic Succession: Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol Rule (Sixth/Twelfth to Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)". In Durand-Guédy, David; Mottahedeh, Roy; Paul, Jürgen (eds.). Cities of Medieval Iran. Brill. pp. 352–394. ISBN 978-90-04-43433-2.
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