Khwaja Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Hafiz Razi (d. April/May 1422) was an Iranian[1] statesman and military commander who served the Timurid Empire in the early 15th-century.
A native of the city of Yazd in southern Iran, Hafiz Razi was a Sufi who had memorized the Quran and could speak seven languages.[2] His career started under the service of the Timurid prince Iskandar, who appointed him as his deputy. According to the Mu'izz al-ansab, Hafiz Razi was also Iskandar's chief vizier.
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- Manz, Beatrice Forbes (2007). Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-46284-6.
- Manz, Beatrice Forbes (2020). "Iranian Elites under the Timurids". In Steenbergen, Jo Van (ed.). Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia. Brill. pp. 257–282. ISBN 978-9004431300.