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6 unusual facts about Qajar Dynasty


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.

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.

Maryam Rajavi

Rajavi was raised in Tehran as the daughter of a middle-class civil servant descended from a member of the Qajar dynasty.

Ménil-en-Xaintois

At the height of its fame, the little theatre attracted audiences from the leisured classes visiting surrounding thermal spas, as well as religious/political pilgrims from the big cities and beyond, including Jules Méline, Maurice Barrès, and the Shah of Persia.

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.

Soltan-e Sahebgharan

It deals with The Ghajar dynasty era and Nasereddin shah and Amir Kabir's relations and struggles and also assassination of the Shah by Mirza Reza Kermani.


Camille Alphonse Trézel

After the Polish campaign, as a lieutenant, he was appointed acting aide to General Gardanne, in the embassy of France to Persia (1807–1808); aide to General Armand Charles Guilleminot on his return in 1809; he was secretary of the Committee on Delimitation of Illyria, was promoted to captain (1810), and transferred to the Spanish army.

Hatef Esfehani

Hatef was contemporary to at least seven rulers of Iran, namely Shah Rukh of Persia (ruled 1748–1796), Karim Khan Zand (r. 1760–1779), Abolfath Khan, Mohammad Ali Khan, Sadiq Khan Zand, and Ali Murad Khan (all from Zand dynasty who ruled 1779–1785), and Agha Mohammad Khan, the founder of Qajar dynasty (r. 1781–1797).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sheikh Khazal rebellion

He then turned to Ahmad Shah Qajar and the Imperial Court of Tehran, presenting himself as a fiercely loyal defender and advocate of the Qajar dynasty, and calling upon the Court to take action against the ambitions of Reza Khan.


see also

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.