Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Khadijah Sultan

b. 1881 or 1882

Khadijah Sultan was the daughter of Sitarah Khanum and Mirza Riza Mustawfi Ashtiyani (a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Sitarah Khanum died at a young age and Mirza Riza married her sister, who raised his children, Khadijah Sultan and Fatimah. Khadijah Sultan married Riza Quli Khan Nizam Mafi when she was 12 years old. Their children: Sadiq (died in childhood), Muhammad ‘Ali (Salar Mu‘azzam), Muhammad Taqi, Zahra Sultan (‘Izzat al-Saltanah), Mahmud, and Ma‘sumah.

Hikayat-i yik zan dar zir va bam-i ruzigar: zindignamah-i ʻIzzat al-Saltanah Nizam Mafi (Farman Farmayan), Mansurah Ittihadiyah (Nizam Mafi) va Bahman Farman, Tehran, Nashr-i Tarikh-i Iran, 2013 Close

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