The vizier وزیر , (translated into wasîr , vizier , to wazir , to wesir or to wezir ), was a civil servant of high ranking, which had a role to advise or minister near the Moslem leaders like the Caliph S, emir S, malik S (king) or Sultan S.

By analogy anachronistic this term appoints also the first magistrate, Tjaty as an Egyptian, after the Pharaon, in the ancient Egypt. This station, whose name was probably created at the time of the Pharaon Snéfrou for his son Néfermaât, was defined as that which is the will of the Master, the ears and the eyes of the king .

Moslem caliphates

The word vizier would come from the empire Perse under the term to vichir , word derived from the Avestique will vicira which means referee, judge. It would have replaced the Arab term kātib , writer, with the direction Secretary of State, during the empire Abbasside.

This term is used in two manners, it indicates either, a kind of Prime Minister for the cabinet of the monarch (one then uses often the term of Top dog ), or a civil servant of ministerial row (a minister or a Secretary of State to the Anglo-Saxon direction).

Ottoman Empire

See also: Top dog

Pharaonic Egypt

See also: Vizier in ancient Egypt

Viziers of fiction

• Iznogoud (character of Cartoon) is a famous imaginary vizier of which the goal is to become caliph in the place of the caliph
• Djafar, in film of Disney Aladdin. He is not really a vizier of fiction since Djafar refers to the famous vizier of the family Barmakides, under the caliphate of Harûn Al-Rashid. This last made carry out Djafar in 803 which was considered to be too powerful with the eyes of this caliph.
• Jaffar, the vizier of the video game Prince de Perse

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