Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Malakah Jahan Khanum and others

Malakah Jahan Khanum and others

From right: Malakah Jahan Khanum, daughter of Surur al-Dawlah and Kamran Mirza Nayib al-Saltanah and wife of Muhammad ʻAli Mirza (seated on the bench); Khadijah Khanum (her daughter), Mahmud Mirza and Majid Mirza (her sons), and Fakhr al-Taj Mu‘ayyiri, daughter of ‘Ismat al-Dawlah and Mu‘ayyir al-Mamalik (seated on the ground). Others were not identified.

Item Details

  • Date early/mid 20th century
  • Notes

    Description in Online Women’s Magazine (IICHS), No. 23: “While in exile in Odessa; Malakah Jahan with her children and maids: Malakah Jahan, her daughter Khadijah, Mahmud Mirza, Majid Mirza, Fakhr al-Taj Mu‘ayyiri, Sultan Husayn Mirza, and Zarrin Taj (Malakah Jahan’s paymaster)”

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  • Accessed 9 October 2013
  • Last Edited 18 May 2015
  • Record no. 1261A76
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