Mirza Shafi Mazandarani
Mirza Shafi Mazandarani | |
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 Illustration of Mirza Shafi Mazandarani | |
| Grand Vizier of Iran | |
| In office 1801–1818/19 | |
| Monarch | Fath-Ali Shah Qajar |
| Preceded by | Hajji Ebrahim Shirazi |
| Succeeded by | Hajji Mohammad Hossein Khan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1744 Qajar Iran |
| Died | 1818/19 Qazvin, Qajar Iran |
Mirza Shafi Mazandarani (Persian: میرزا شفیع مازندرانی) was the prime minister of the Qajar Iran's shah (king) Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834) from 1801 until his death in 1818/19.[1][2]
A son of Mirza Haji Ahmad, he was born in 1744 to an Isfahani family that moved to the Mazandaran province after the assassination of Nader Shah in 1747.[1][3] His career started in the court of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–1797), the founder of the Qajar dynasty.[3]
References
- ^ a b Behrooz 2023, p. 166.
- ^ Bournoutian 2021, p. 286.
- ^ a b Atabaki 1993.
Sources
- Behrooz, Maziar (2023). Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-7556-3737-9.
- Bournoutian, George (2021). From the Kur to the Aras: A Military History of Russia's Move into the South Caucasus and the First Russo-Iranian War, 1801–1813. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-44515-4.
- Atabaki, T. (1993). "Mīrzā S̲h̲afīʿ Māzandarānī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume VII: Mif–Naz. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09419-2.
- Javadi, H. (1983). "Abu'l-Ḥasan Khan Īḷčī". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume I/3: Ablution, Islamic–Abū Manṣūr Heravı̄. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 308–310. ISBN 978-0-71009-092-8.
