Abbasqoli Mo'tamad-dawla Javanshir
Abbasqoli Mo'tamad-dawla Javanshir | |
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عباسقلی معتمدالدوله جوانشیر | |
Kerman | |
| In office 1841–1843 | |
| Preceded by | Fazl Ali Khan Qarabaghi |
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| Born | After 1804 Abulfat agha Javanshir (father) |
Abbasqoli khan Mo'tamad-dawla Javanshir (Persian: عباسقلی معتمدالدوله جوانشیر) was an Iranian statesman, first Minister of Justice of Iran from 1859 to 1862.[1][2]
Biography
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His first public duty was governorate of
He was appointed to be military chief of Naser al-Din Mirza (then governor of Azerbaijan) by royal tutor Haji Mirza Aqasi in January 1848.[5] After Naser al-Din's accession to throne in September 1848, he was sent to quell mutiny of a company of Azerbaijani troops garrisoned in Tehran against Amir Kabir and Shahsevan insurgency in Ardabil, Meshkinshahr and Qaradagh in 1849.[6] He was replaced by Mohammad Reza Qajar in Ardabil and Qasim Qajar in Qaradagh.
He was appointed by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar to be first Minister of Justice of Iran in 1859 after dismissal of Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri and was given epithet Mo'tamad-dawla (Persian: معتمدالدوله, lit. 'Trust of the State'). He established secular courts in regions of Iran and barred local governors of conducting trials on their own.[1] He died 3 year after attaining the post. He was followed by his brother Muhammad Ibrahim Motamad al-Mulk in this post.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-136-14202-4.
- ^ Solati, Bahman (2012-03-20). "The Reception of Ḥāfiẓ in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Persia": 69.
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- OCLC 315437163.
- ISBN 978-0-520-08321-9.
- ISBN 978-0-521-58336-7.
