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| Mohammad Vali Mirza | |
|---|---|
 Illustration of Mohammad Vali Mirza, from the Nezamiyeh Hall in the Golestan Palace, Tehran | |
| Born | 1789 Nava, Mazandaran, Iran |
| Died | 1867 |
| Dynasty | Qajar |
| Father | Fath-Ali Shah Qajar |
| Mother | Bibi Kuchak Khanum |
| Religion | Twelver Shia Islam |
Mohammad Vali Mirza (Persian: محمدولی میرزا) was a Qajar prince, governor and military officer in 19th-century Iran. He was one of the eldest sons of Fath-Ali Shah (r. 1797–1834).
Biography
Mohammad Vali Mirza was born in 1789 in the village of Nava in Mazandaran, northern Iran. He was the third or fourth son of Fath-Ali Shah (r. 1797–1834), the second Qajar ruler of Iran. His mother was a Bakhtiari named Bibi Kuchak Khanum. Three of his brothers were also in the same year; Abbas Mirza, the heir apparent and future governor of the Azerbaijan province; Mohammad-Ali Mirza Dowlatshah, who was the eldest and future governor of the Kermanshah, Lorestan and Khuzestan provinces; Hossein Ali Mirza, a persistent schemer and future governor of the Fars province. Intense competition would emerge between these brothers. During his childhood, Mohammad Vali Mirza helped escort Dowlatshah to safety after the latter had made a rude remark to Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–1797). In 1799, Mohammad Vali Mirza was appointed as the governor of the towns of Semnan and Damghan.
The British Iranologist Gavin R.G. Hambly described Mohammad Vali Mirza as "violent and intemperate."
References
- ^ Farmanfarmaian 2011, p. 221.
- ^ Farmanfarmaian 2011, p. 221 (note 12).
- Amanat 1999, pp. 407–421.
- Hambly 1991, pp. 149–151.
- Ashraf 2024, p. 280.
- Hambly 1991, p. 150.
Sources
- Amanat, Abbas (1999). "Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah Qājār". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. IX/4: Fārs II–Fauna III. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 407–421. ISBN 978-0-933273-32-0.
- Ashraf, Assef (2024). Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1009361552.
- Farmanfarmaian, Fatema Soudavar (2011). "An Iranian Perspective of J. B. Fraser's Trip to Khorasan in the 1820s". Iranian Studies. 44 (2): 217–242. doi:10.1080/00210862.2011.541692. S2CID 162041391.
- Hambly, Gavin R. G. (1991). Avery, Peter; Hambly, Gavin R. G.; Melville, Charles Peter (eds.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 7: From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 104–173. ISBN 0-521-20095-4.
- Noelle-Karimi, Christine (2014). The Pearl in its Midst: Herat and the Mapping of Khurasan (15th-19th Centuries). Austrian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-3700172024.