Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Husn-i Jan Khanum

Daughter of ‘Abd al-Khaliq; wife of Sultan Muhammad Ibrahim Mirza Mu‘izzi; their children: ‘Abd al-Baqi Mirza, Sultan Majid Mirza, and two daughters who died in childhood.

Husn-i Jahan Khanum's father, ‘Abd al-Khaliq, a chief in Savujbulagh-i Mukri (Mahabad), was killed by his cousin over an inheritance dispute. Her mother died at childbirth when she was born, and Husn-i Jahan Khanum was raised by her sister and nanny. At the age of five, she was kidnapped along with a gourp of other children and was sent to Tabriz, where some of them were purchased by Crown Prince Muzaffar al-Din Shah and others. The rest were sent to Tehran and Husn-i Jahan Khanum was purchased by Pasha Khan to become the playmate of his younger daughter, Saltanat Khanum (Muhtaram al-Dawlah). When she was thirteen or fourteen, Sitarah Khanum (Pasha Khan's wife) married her off to her brother, Sultan Ibrahim. Close

This information was obtained through the genealogies of the Moezzi family. Close

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