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Gowhar Khanum
Gowhar Khanum (Persian: گوهرخانم) was a Qajar princess and the daughter of Fath-Ali Shah.''Khayrat-é Hésan.'' Etemad al-Saltaneh. 1889 (1307 AH). The exact dates of her birth and death remain unknown.Farhi, Houman (2003). ''Encyclopedia of Iranian Women.'' First Edition. Center for Women's Participation Affairs, Presidential Office. p. 793. ISBN 9789645515407. Biography Family background Gowhar Khanum was born into the illustrious Qajar family, and her mother, who shared her name, was ''Gowhar Khanum'', the sister of Allah-Yar Khan Asef al-Dowleh. Her mother passed away shortly after giving birth, which was a significant event that led to Gowhar Khanum being given her mother's name as a tribute. Growing up in the Qajar court, she would have been surrounded by the complex political and cultural dynamics of the time, which emphasized the importance of marriage alliances among the nobility. Marriages and offspring Gowhar Khanum's life, like that of many Qajar princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964), and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qajar Dynasty
The Qajar family (; 1789–1925) was an Iranian royal family founded by Mohammad Khan (), a member of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman-descended Qajar tribe. The dynasty's effective rule in Iran ended in 1925 when Iran's '' Majlis'', convening as a constituent assembly on 12 December 1925, declared Reza Shah, a former brigadier-general of the Persian Cossack Brigade, as the new ''shah'' of what became known as Pahlavi Iran. List of Qajar monarchs Qajar imperial family The Qajar Imperial Family in exile is currently headed by the eldest descendant of Mohammad Ali Shah, Sultan Mohammad Ali Mirza Qajar, while the Heir Presumptive to the Qajar throne is Mohammad Hassan Mirza II, the grandson of Mohammad Hassan Mirza, Sultan Ahmad Shah's brother and heir. Mohammad Hassan Mirza died in England in 1943, having proclaimed himself shah in exile in 1930 after the death of his brother in France. Today, the descendants of the Qajars often identify themselves as such and hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (; 5 August 1772 – 24 October 1834) was the second Shah of Qajar Iran. He reigned from 17 June 1797 until his death on 24 October 1834. His reign saw the irrevocable ceding of Iran's northern territories in the Caucasus, comprising what is nowadays Georgia (country), Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, to the Russian Empire following the Russo-Persian Wars of Russo-Persian War (1804–1813), 1804–1813 and Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), 1826–1828 and the resulting treaties of Treaty of Gulistan, Gulistan and Treaty of Turkmenchay, Turkmenchay., page 728 These two treaties are closely tied to Fath-Ali Shah's legacy amongst Iranians, who often view him as a weak ruler. Fath-Ali Shah successfully reconstituted his realm from a mostly Turkic tribal khanship into a centralized and stable monarchy based on the old imperial design. At the end of his reign, his difficult economic problems and military and technological liabilities took Iran to the verge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khayrat-é Hésan
''Khayrat-é Hésan'' (Persian language, Persian: خیرات حسان; lit. Fairest Women) is a comprehensive biographical encyclopedia of prominent women in the Islamic world, written in Persian and compiled in three volumes by Mohammad Hasan Khan E'temad os-Saltaneh, Mohammad Hasan Khan Maraghe’i, known as E'temad os-Saltaneh (died 1895).''Biographies of the Men of Iran in the 12th, 13th, and 14th Centuries AH'', Mehdi Bamdad, 1999, Zavar Publishing, . A notable writer and politician of the Qajar Iran, Qajar era, E'temad os-Saltaneh organised this work alphabetically and documented the lives of distinguished women from the early Islamic period to his own time. Due to its writing style, use of varied sources, and comprehensiveness, this work is considered one of the most significant historical records of its kind.Saeed Nafisi, ''History of Poetry and Prose in Iran and the Persian Language until the End of the 10th Century AH'', Tehran, 1965. The book Sources and motivation f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asef Al-Dowleh
Allahyar Khan Devellu-Qajar Asef al-Dowleh () was the prime minister of Qajar Iran, Iran under Fath-Ali Shah Qajar () from 1824 to 1828. Asef al-Dowleh was a hardline proponent of intensifying the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), Russo-Iranian War of 1826–1828, performed ineffectively on the battlefield, and was among the first to evacuate to the city of Tabriz. When the Russians captured Tabriz without an opposition, he was in charge of the men in the city's fortress. He was as a result placed under detention in his own house, and after being freed, so deeply outraged was Fath-Ali Shah at Asef al-Dowleh's conduct that he ordered that Asef al-Dowleh be publicly flogged for his "cowardly behavior". Asef al-Dowleh played a key role in inciting the population to oppose the Russian diplomat Alexander Griboyedov, which led to the massacre at the Russian Embassy in Tehran in 1829. Background Asef al-Dowleh was the eldest son of Mohammad Khan Devellu-Qajar (also known as Rokn al-Dowl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebrahim Khan
Ebrahim Khan Zahir od-Dowleh () was an Iranian statesman from the Qajar dynasty. He is mostly known for being the governor of the Kerman province for 22 years (1803–1824). Life Ebrahim Khan was from the Qawanlu (also spelled Qoyunlu) branch of the Qajar family; he was the son of Mehdi-Qoli Khan, who was the brother of the Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, and thus a paternal uncle of Fath-Ali Shah. Ebrahim Khan's mother was Asia Khanum, who was daughter of a certain Mohammad Khan Qawanlu. The date of Ebrahim Khan's birth is unknown, but he is known to have been a child when his father died during the siege of Astarabad in 1783 by the Zand ruler Karim Khan. After the early death of Ebrahim Khan's father, Agha Mohammad Khan married his mother, and then treated and raised Ebrahim Khan as one of his own sons along with his two nephews Fath-Ali Shah and Hosayn-Qoli Khan. In 1791, Ebrahim Khan married Fath-Ali Shah's eldest daughter Homayun Soltan. On 17 June 1797, Agha Moham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qajar Princesses
The Guarded Domains of Iran, alternatively the Sublime State of Iran and commonly called Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia or the Qajar Empire, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani. ''Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power'', I. B. Tauris, 2000, , p. 1William Bayne Fisher. ''Cambridge History of Iran'', Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 344, Dr Parviz Kambin, ''A History of the Iranian Plateau: Rise and Fall of an Empire'', Universe, 2011, p.36online edition specifically from the Qajar tribe, from 1789 to 1925. The Qajar family played a pivotal role in the Unification of Iran (1779–1796), deposing Lotf 'Ali Khan, the last Shah of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted Iranian sovereignty over large parts of the Caucasus. In 1796, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar seized Mashhad with ease, putting an end to the Afsharid dynasty. He was formally crowned as Shah after his punitive campaign against Iran's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
A child () is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, in this case as a person younger than the local age of majority (there are exceptions such as, for example, the consume and purchase of alcoholic beverage even after said age of majority), regardless of their physical, mental and sexual development as biological adults. Children generally have fewer rights and responsibilities than adults. They are generally classed as unable to make serious decisions. ''Child'' may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any age) or, metaphorically, an authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Iranian Women
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
