Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani (Persian: فتحعلی خان داغستانی), was a Lezgian nobleman, who served as the Grand Vizier of the Safavid shah (king) Sultan Husayn (r. 1694–1722) from 1716 to 1720. A member of an aristocratic Lezgian family native to Daghestan, Daghestani was unlike the earlier Safavid grand viziers, a Sunnite, which was a religious sect of Islam that often faced persecution from the Safavid state. Although this did not stop Daghestani from rising in power and influence—in July 1716, he was appointed as grand vizier by the indecisive and weak Sultan Husayn, who had little interest in political affairs, thus letting Daghestani take care of most of the affairs of the country.