Mirza Shafi Mazandarani

Mirza Shafi Mazandarani
Illustration of Mirza Shafi Mazandarani
Grand Vizier of Iran
In office
1801–1818/19
MonarchFath-Ali Shah Qajar
Preceded byHajji Ebrahim Shirazi
Succeeded byHajji Mohammad Hossein Khan
Personal details
Born1744
Qajar Iran
Died1818/19
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

  1. ^ a b Behrooz 2023, p. 166.
  2. ^ Bournoutian 2021, p. 286.
  3. ^ 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. Vol. I/3: Ablution, Islamic–Abū Manṣūr Heravı̄. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 308–310. ISBN 978-0-71009-092-8.