Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar

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Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
Prime Ministers
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Born(1872-06-21)21 June 1872
Imam Hussein Shrine
SpouseMalekeh Jahan
IssueSee below
Names
Mohmmad Ali Shah
DynastyQajar
FatherMozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
Mother Taj ol-Molouk (Umm al-Khakan)
ReligionSunni Islam
TughraMohammad Ali Shah Qajar's signature

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (Persian: محمدعلی شاه قاجار‎; 21 June 1872 – 5 April 1925) Shah of Iran from 8 January 1907 to 16 July 1909. He was the sixth shah of the Qajar dynasty.

Biography

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar was opposed to the Persian Constitution of 1906, which had been ratified during the reign of his father, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar. Therefore, he was frequently criticized by the publications of the period, including a weekly newspaper Musavat.[1] In 1907, Mohammad Ali dissolved the National Consultative Assembly and declared the Constitution abolished because it was contrary to Islamic law.[2] He bombarded the Majles (Persian parliament) with the military and political support of Russia and Britain.[3]

In July 1909, pro-Constitution forces

Bagher Khan and Yeprem Khan
, deposed the Shah, and re-established the constitution. On 16 July 1909, the parliament voted to place Mohammad Ali Shah's 11-year-old son, Ahmad Shah on the throne. Mohammad Ali Shah abdicated following the new Constitutional Revolution and he has since been remembered as a symbol of dictatorship.

Having fled to

Imam Husain in Karbala, Iraq. Every Shah of Persia
since Mohammad Ali has died in exile.

His son and successor, Ahmad Shah Qajar was the last sovereign of the Qajar dynasty.[4]

Honours

  • Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (1900)
  • French Third Republic: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1907)
  • Ottoman Empire: Exalted Order of the
    House of Osman
    (1905)
  • Russian Empire:
    • Knight of the Order of St. Andrew (1905)
    • Knight of the
      Order of St. Alexander Nevsky
      (1905)
    • Knight of the
      Order of the White Eagle
      (1905)
    • Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st Class (1905)
    • Knight of the
      Order of St. Anna
      , 1st Class (1905)
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar with Mirza Mohammad Ebrahim Khan, the Mo'avin al-Dowleh, and Company, c. 1907
A 2000 Dinar/2 Qiran coin of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar era

Marriages and children

Wives

Mohammad Ali Shah had two wives:

  1. Robabeh Khanum "Malih-os-Saltaneh"
  2. Princess Zahra Qajar "Malekeh Jahan", daughter of Kamran Mirza "Nayeb-os-Saltaneh"

Children

Mohammad Ali Shah had six sons and two daughters:

Sons
  1. Hossein Ali Mirza "E'tezad Saltaneh"
  2. Gholam Hossein Mirza (died in infancy)
  3. Sultan Ahmad Mirza (later Ahmad Shah Qajar)
  4. Mohammad Hassan Mirza
  5. Sultan Mahmoud Mirza
  6. Sultan Majid Mirza
Daughters
  1. Khadijeh Khanum "Hazrat-e Ghodsieh"
  2. Assieh Khanum

List of prime ministers

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar after deposal, c. 1912–1915

See also

References

  1. S2CID 153631653
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 90-04-09738-4
    . p. 285-286
  3. ^ "گزارشی از سمینار 'سده انقلاب مشروطیت ایران' در لندن". BBC Persian. 24 July 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  4. ^ Soltan Ali Mirza Kadjar, 'Mohammad Ali Shah: The Man and the King', in: Qajar Studies. Travellers and Diplomats in the Qajar Era. Journal of the International Qajar Studies Association, volume VII, 2007.

Further reading

  • Shablovskaia, Alisa (2019). "Treacherous friends or disenchanted masters? Russian diplomacy and Muhammad 'Ali (Shah) Qajar, 1911-1912". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 48 (4): 1–18.
    S2CID 210459869
    .

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Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
Born: 21 June 1872 Died: 5 April 1925
Iranian royalty
Preceded by
Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar
 Shah of Persia
1907–1909 		Succeeded by
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