Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Vajih Allah Mirza (Sipahsalar Aʻzam)

b. 1854 or 1855
d. 1913 or 1914

Vajih Allah Mirza, known as Aqa Vajih, Sayf al-Mulk, Amir Khan Sardar, Sardar Mu‘azzam, and Sipahsalar A‘zam, was son of Sultan Ahmad Mirza ‘Azud al-Dawlah (son of Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar), brother of Shams al-Dawlah (Nasir al-Din Shah's wife) and Sultan ‘Abd al-Muhammad Mirza Sayf al-Dawlah, and father of Nusrat Allah Khan (known as Sayf al-Mulk, Amir Khan Sardar, Amir A‘zam).

Vajih Allah Mirza was first a ghulam-bachah and then a pishkhidmat for Nasir al-Din Shah. From 1871 or 1872, he worked for Mirza Hasan Khan Mushir al-Dawlah. He became the Minister of War in 1899 or 1900. Close

سلیمانی، کریم، القاب رجال دوره قاجاریه، نشر نی، تهران، ۱۳۷۹، صص ۳۸، ۴۰، و ۸۵. Close

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