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unusual facts about Qajar



Abol-Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian

Abol-Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian is the son of the Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Batoul Khanoum.

Ali Asghar Khan

Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Sultan (1843–1907), last prime minister of Iran under Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar

Ali Murad Khan

Ali Murad Khan was given power over the Persian army to destroy Qajar tribes in the north, but he betrayed Abol Fath Khan, and left him defenseless in capital to be slain by Sadiq Khan.

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

Her third novel The Woman Who Read Too Much is also set in the middle of the nineteenth century, and centers around Tahirih Qurratu'l-Ayn, a poet and scholar from Qazvin, who shocked the political powers of Qajar Persia and violated religious convention by casting aside her veil.

Dowlatshah

Mohammad Ali Mirza Dowlatshah (4 January 1789, Larijan, Amol, Mazandaran – 22 November 1821, Al-Mada'in, Iraq) was a famous Persian Prince of Qajar Dynasty.

Hajji Washington

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori is sent to the United States, then under the presidency of Grover Cleveland, to open up the first embassy for Iran by Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar.

Heinrich Menu von Minutoli

Heinrich Menu von Minutoli married Wolfradine von Schulenburg (who also became known as an Egyptologist) and they had three sons: Julius (a Berlin chief of police and envoy to the Qajar court in Persia), Adolph and Alexander.

Huseyn Arablinski

His other stage roles Shah (Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar by A.Hagverdiyev), Khlestakov (The Government Inspector by N.Gogol), Heydar bey (Haji Gara by M.F.Akhundov), Othello (Othello by W.Shakespeare), etc.

Ijtihad

A woman can be a mujtahid and there are dozens who have attained the rank in the modern history of Iran (for instance, Amina Bint al-Majlisi in the Safavid era, Bibi Khanum in the Qajar era, Lady Amin in the Pahlavi era, and Zohreh Sefati during the time of the Islamic Republic).

Iran Bethel School

Without the Iran Bethel school and the efforts of Jane Doolittle and Frances M. Gray, Damavand College could have never been established and the improvement of the early deprived Iranian women of Qajar and later Pahlavi dynasty could have never been achieved.

Lavasanat District

During the Qajar era and early 20th century Lavasanat was the transit way between northern slopes of Elburz and Tehran with Afjeh and Najarkala known as the most famous towns of Lavasanat.

Mastoureh Ardalan

When the Qajar state conquered the Ardalan territory in 19th century, she and her family left for the Baban principality centered in Sulaymaniyah.

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar

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

Ottoman wars in Asia

During Hotaki, Afsharid and Qajar dynasties of Persia, Ottomans fought against Persia several times with little gain to either side.

Political accusations against the Baha'i Faith

By the end of the 19th century, there was a growing dissension with the Qajar state, and in an effort to draw public attention away from the government and instead toward the evils of the 'devious sect', charges of subversion and conspiracy against the Bábís and Bahá'ís increased.

Sardar Iravani

Sardār-e Īravānī was the title of Hossein Khan Sardar Qajar (1740-1830) and his brother Hasan Khan Qajar, the last governor of Eravan (Iravan, Jerevan, Yerevan) 1807-28, the son of Mohammad Khan Qajar (Amir Kabir) uncle of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar the founder of Qajar Dynasty in Persia and also the ancestor of family Sardari Iravani, an old Persian Qajar family.

ii) Captain Hasan Khan-e Qajar Quyunlu ( Sardar e Iravani - Sardar e Kuchak ).


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