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4 unusual facts about Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar


Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar

The Shah visited the United Kingdom in August 1902 on the promise of receiving the Order of the Garter as it had been previously given to his father, Nasser-ed-Din Shah.

King Edward VII refused to give this high honor to a non-Christian.

Baghe Mozaffar, an Iranian TV show about a modern-day Qajar Khan

Hamid Dabashi, Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future, 320 p. (Verso, London, 2001), Chapter 1.


Masjed Soleyman

William Knox D'Arcy, by contract with King Mozaffaroddin Qajar, obtained permission to explore for oil for the first time in the Middle East, near this city.

Prix d'Ispahan

The meeting had been hastily arranged to honour the Shah of Persia, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, who was making an official visit to Paris.

Samaneh Kazemi

The reputation of Miraza made her to be invited to Tehran by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.

Samarian spinel

According to a diary entry of the court physician to the Iranian Shah Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, the King told the physician that the stone once adorned the neck of the biblical golden calf, which the Israelites are said to have made while Moses was receiving the Ten Commandments.

Sheikh Jafar Shooshtari

On the way, he stopped at Ray, where many scholars and clerics on the order of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar visited him and asked him to stay in Tehran.

Tehran Zoological Garden

Later, when Naser al-Din Shah Qajar traveled to Europe he was inspired by the modern zoological gardens.


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