Portrait of Bahman Mirza taken in Karabakh, dated 1862
Born
1810 Iran
Died
1883/84 (aged 73–74) Shusha, Russian Empire
Dynasty
Qajar
Father
Abbas Mirza
Religion
Twelver Shia Islam
Writing career
Language
Persian
Notable works
Tazkera-ye Mohammad Shahi
Bahman Mirza (Persian: بهمن میرزا, romanized: Bahman Mīrzā; 1810 – 1883/84) was a Qajar prince, literary scholar, and writer who lived in Iran and later the Russian Empire. The fourth son of the former crown prince Abbas Mirza, his career in Iran was marked by several governorships, including the province of Azerbaijan (1841–1847).
In 1845, riots and other disturbances started occurring in Iran as its unstable state and the illness of Bahman Mirza's full brother and sovereign Mohammad Shah Qajar (r. 1834–1848). In 1846, the Qajar Hasan Khan Salar started a rebellion in Khorasan. He and his father Asef al-Dowleh (Bahman Mirza's uncle) planned to capture the capital of Tehran and install Bahman Mirza on the throne. It is uncertain if Bahman Mirza was part of this scheme or not. He was ultimately granted sanctuary by Mohammad Shah in Tehran, but was treated in a hostile manner by him, and also continued to be worried by the schemes of the grand vizier Haji Mirza Aqasi.
Bahman Mirza thus fled to the Russian Empire in November 1847. He had been granted asylum there, since the Russians considered sheltering an Iranian prince as a crucial component of their foreign policy with Iran. Bahman Mirza spent the rest of his life there, dying in 1883 or 1884. He was survived by over 100 children and grandchildren, with many of them serving in the Russian government and military.
Bahman Mirza was a patron of literature and a man of letters. He commissioned the first Persian translation of the Arabic Alf layla wa layla (One Thousand and One Nights), which was completed in 1835. With the encouragement of Mohammad Shah, he also composed the Tazkera-ye Mohammad Shahi in 1841, a Persian tazkera (anthology of poets). The tazerka is full of poetry, including 4,500 verses from Ferdowsi alone; however it is not very useful for biographical information.
BahmanMirza (Persian: بهمن میرزا, romanized: BahmanMīrzā; 1810 – 1883/84) was a Qajar prince, literary scholar, and writer who lived in Iran and later...
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him to the position of governor of Kerman to BahmanMirza Baha al-Dawla, the governor of Yazd. BahmanMirza offered Hasan Ali Shah lodging in the city,...
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Khanlar Mirza then went to Yazd to take Kerman from BahmanMirza. Their clash infuriated Mohammad Shah, but Aqasi stepped in to defend Khanlar Mirza. From...
having the rank of lieutenant colonel. Aligulu Mirza was born in 1854 in the city of Shusha to BahmanMirza and his 5th wife Kuchek Barda Khanum as his father's...
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son of Prince BahmanMirza, the governor-general (vali) of Azerbaijan in the time of Mohammad Shah Qajar. His mother was BahmanMirza's first chief wife...
Prince Soltan Ali Mirza Kadjar (Qajar) (Persian: سلطانعلی میرزا قاجار; November 16, 1929 – May 27, 2011) was an Iranian Prince of Qajar dynasty and the...
1850) was a Qajar prince most notable for his rebellion and support for BahmanMirza Qajar's claim on the Iranian throne. He was the fifth son of the Qajar...
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He was a member of the Qajar dynasty. He was born into the family of BahmanMirza Qajar and Mirvari Khanum Talishiskaya from the Qajar dynasty and received...
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