Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Zubaydah (Jahan) Khanum

Zubaydah Khanum (known as Janbaji and Firishtah) was the daughter of Mah Afarin Khanum Shirazi and Fath ʻAli Shah Qajar. She married ʻAli Naqi Khan Qaraguzlu (Nusrat al-Mulk). They had a son named Muhammad Husayn Khan (Hisam al-Mulk), who became the governor of Kirmanshah.

Zubaydah Khanum (known as Janbaji and Firishtah) was the daughter of Mah Afarin Khanum Shirazi and the 27th daughter of Fath ʻAli Shah Qajar. Rustam Khan Qaraguzlu asked her to marry his son, ʻAli Naqi Khan Qaraguzlu (Nusrat al-Mulk), which the shah approved. They had a son named Muhammad Husayn Khan (Hisam al-Mulk), who later became the governor of Kirmanshah and died in 1889. Zubaydah Khanum and her husband went to Hamadan and resided there for 60 years. There, she became a follower of Haji Mirza ʻAli Naqi Hamadani. During her lifetime, she went on Hajj once, and made many trips to the shrines of the Shiʻi Imams in Iraq and Mashhad. Every year, she used to donate money to the poor and for reconstructions in the region. She built a caravansarai for pilgrims in Tajabad village, endowed two sixths of Lalah Jin village for the performance of taʻziyah and the lighting of Imam Husayn's shrine in Karbalaʼ, and gave money for the maintenance, lighting, and Quʼran reader of Baba Tahir ʻUryan's shrine. The shrine and the courtyard of Imamzadah Yahya in Hamadan was also constructed upon her request to her son, Hisam al-Mulk. Zubaydah Khanum wrote poetry under the pen name Jahan. A collection of her poems has remained. Close

دايرة المعارف زن ایرانی (جلد دو) به سرپرستی مصطفی اجتهادی، مرکز امور مشارکت زنان ریاست جمهوری، چاپ اول ۱۳۸۲. عضدالدوله، میرزا احمد خان. تاریخ عضدی. با مقدمه و تصحیح: عبدالحسین نوایی. تهران، علم، ۱۳۷۶. Close

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