Saru Khan Sahandlu

Saru Khan Sahandlu (Persian: لو شاهرخ خان سهند‎‎) was a powerful and high-ranking aristocrat from the Turkoman Sahandlu tribe, who served as the head of the royal bodyguard (qurchi-bashi) from 1682 to 1691. In 1690, he had 40 members of the Zangana tribe killed, which made the Zangana nobleman Shah Quli Khan Zangana protest to shah Suleiman I (r. 1666-1694), stating that Saru Khan had humiliated the name of his deceased father Shaykh Ali Khan by doing so. Suleiman forgave Saru Khan, due to the good relation they had. However, this was soon to end: in 1691, Suleiman had Saru Khan beheaded due to having an love relationship with Maryam Begum, the aunt of Suleiman.