Hajji Mohammad Hossein Isfahani
Hajji Mohammad Hossein Isfahani (born 1758,
Fath Ali Shah
.
Biography
In 1795 or 1796 he was named governor (beglarbegi) of Isfahan,
Qom, and Kashan. In this role, Mohammad Hossein invested heavily in agriculture, which increased his own wealth and contributed to Isfahan's economic revival. In 1806 he was appointed mostowfi ol-mamalek, given the title Amin ol-Dowleh, and his son, Abd ol-Hossein Khan Isfahani succeeded him as beglarbegi. In 1809, Mohammad Hossein presented the Peacock Throne to the shah at the shah's marriage to Tarvus Khanum Taj ol-Dowleh. In 1813 he was given the title Nizam al-Dawla. In 1818, Mirza Shafi Mazandarani died and Mohammad Hossein was appointed to the position of sadr-e a'zam which he held until his death in 1823.[1][2]
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Mohammad Hossein was close to Scottish diplomat
Mohammad Hossein's son, Mohammad Ibrahim Khan Nazir ol-Dowleh, married one of the Fath Ali Shah Qajar's daughters (Khadijeh Soltan Begom, "Esmat-ed-Dowleh) [4] and Khan's daughter married Husayn Ali Mirza Farmanfarma, governor of Shiraz.[5] Khan died October 19, 1823.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Lambton 1991 p440
- ^ Walcher 2001
- ^ Walcher 2001
- ^ Children of Fath Ali Shah Qajar, History of the Qajar (Kadjar) Dynasty of Persia, qajarpages.com, accessed February 11, 2018, citing Soltan Ahmad Mirza Azod-ed-Dowleh, Tarikh-e Azodi, Nashr-e Elm, Tehran, 1376, and Kadjar Family Archives
- ^ Walcher 2001
- ^ Afman 2008, p260
Sources
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- Ansari, Passim, and Abd al-Husayn Sipanta, Tarikhshan-i awqaf-i Isfahan (Isfahan, 1364/1967), 4
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- Walcher, Heidi (2001). "Face of the Seven Spheres: The Urban Morphology and Architecture of Nineteenth-Century Isfahan (Part Two)". Iranian Studies. 34 (1/4): 117–139. S2CID 145640514.