Vizier
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Vizier |vɪˌzɪə| |ˌvɪzɪə| (German: Wesire) is the common and conventional English-language translation for the highest ancient Egyptian administrative office immediately below the ruler. The term was adopted into English for the chief minister of the Egyptian state on analogy with the Ottoman chief minister; adopted from Turkish vezir, therefore, with origins in Arabic وزير wazīr "caliph's chief counsellor" and Persian vechir.
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Bibliography
- Boorn, G.P.F. van den [1988], The Duties of the Vizier: Civil Administration in the Early New Kingdom, [Studies in Egyptology], London: Kegan Paul International, 1988. ISBN 0710303300
- Dziobek, Eberhard [1994], Die Gräber des Vezirs User-Amun: Theben Nr. 61 und 131, [Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo, Archäologische Veroffentlichungen 84], Mainz: Zabern, 1994. ISBN 3805314957
- Gessler-Löhr, Beatrix [1995], "Bemerkungen zur Nekropole des Neuen Reiches von Saqqara vor der Amarna-Zeit. I: Gräber der Wesire von Unterägypten", in Kessler, Dieter and Schulz, Regine (eds), Gedenkschrift für Winfried Barta - ḥtp dj n ḥzj, [Münchener Ägyptologische Untersuchungen 4], Frankfurt am Main - Berlin - Bern: Peter Lang - Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1995, pp.133-157. ISBN 363148366X.
