Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Shawkat al-Muluk Khvajah Nuri, the daughter of Mirza Abu Turab Khan Nazm al-Dawlah, was a student of Kamal al-Mulk Ghaffari in watercolor and oil painting. She was also skilled in khamah-duzi (a kind of embroidery). In 1915 (or 1916), she married Hadi Khan Hisn al-Dawlah (Sarlashgar [the major general] Hadi Shaqaqi). They had a daughter and a son. Shawkat al-Muluk died in 1965 (or 1966) of liver cancer and was buried in the family mausoleum in Hazarat ʻAbd al-ʻAzim.

ممتحن الدوله. مهدی ابن رضا قلی. (۱۳۶۲). خاطرات ممتحن الدوله. تهران: فردوسی و نشرفرهنگ. Close