Mohammad Baqer Mirza
Mohammad Baqer Mirza (Persian: محمدباقرمیرزا) better known in the West as Safi Mirza (صفیمیرزا)[1] (15 September 1587, Mashhad – 2 February 1614, Rasht) was the oldest son of Shah Abbas the Great (r. 1588-1629), and the crown prince of the Safavid dynasty during Abbas' reign and his own short life.
Safi Mirza was caught in one of the court intrigues in which several leading Circassians were involved, which would eventually cost him his life, and his place in the line of succession to become the next Shah. His son became the next Shah, known by his dynastic name Safi (r. 1629-1642).
Life
Mohammed Baqer Mirza was born in September 1587 by either one of
In 1621 Abbas fell seriously ill. Thinking his father was on his deathbed, his son and heir, Khodabandeh Mirza, began to celebrate his accession to the throne with his Qizilbash supporters. But the shah recovered and proceeded to punish his son by blinding him, disqualifying him from ever taking the throne.
Unexpectedly, Abbas now chose as his heir the son of Mohammed Baqer Mirza,
Family
Safi married his first wife Fakhr Jahan Begum, a daughter of Shah Ismail II, in November 1601 in Isfahan.[9] She was the mother of his son Soltan Soleyman Mirza who was blinded in 1621 and killed in August 1632 at Alamut, Qazvin.[10] Safi's second wife was Dilaram Khanum, a Georgian.[11] Their son Soltan Abul-Naser Sam Mirza succeeded his grandfather Abbas the Great and became known as Safi of Persia.[12]
Sources
- ^ Bomati & Nahavandi 1998, p. 235
- ^ "ČARKAS". Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ Blow 2009, pp. 31, 60–61.
- ^ Babaie et al. 2004, p. Note. 60, page 157.
- ^ Bomati & Nahavandi 1998, pp. 235–236
- ^ Bomati & Nahavandi 1998, pp. 236–237
- ^ Savory 1980, p. 95
- ^ Bomati & Nahavandi 1998, pp. 240–241
- ^ American Society of Genealogists (1997). The Genealogist. Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. p. 246.
- ^ American Society of Genealogists (1997). The Genealogist. Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. p. 60.
- ^ Babayan, K. (1993). The Waning of the Qizilbash: The Spiritual and the Temporal in Seventeenth Century Iran. Princeton University. p. 97.
- ISBN 978-1-5275-2794-2.
References
- LCCN 2005272298.
- Bierbrier, Morris (1997). "The Descendants of Theodora Comnena of Trebizond". The Genealogist. 11 (2): 249–250.
- Blake, Stephen P. (1999). Half the world: the social architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722. Mazda Publishers. p. 16. ISBN 978-1568590875.
- Blow, David (2009). Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716767.
- Bomati, Yves; Nahavandi, Houchang (1998). Shah Abbas, empereur de Perse 1587–1629 [Shah Abbas, Emperor of Persia, 1587-1629] (in French). Paris, France: Perrin. LCCN 99161812.
- Savory, Roger M. (1980). Iran under the Safavids. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. LCCN 78073817.