Ebrahim Khan Qajar Qovanlou, Zahir ol-Dowleh

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ẒAHIR-AL-DAWLA, EBRĀHIM KHAN (d. Tehran, 1240/1824), military leader and governor of Kermān under Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah Qajar (r. 1797-1834). A cousin, stepson, and son-in-law of Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah, Ebrāhim Khan was an important patron of architecture, particularly famous for the Ebrāhim Khan Complex in the old bazaar of Kermān. Entrusted with the governorship of Kermān, he undertook the reconstruction of the city after the devastating siege of Āḡā Moḥammad Khan Qajar (r. 1794-97). He favored and supported the Shaikhis (Šayḵis) of Kermān.

Youth. Ebrāhim Khan was from the Qawānlu branch of the Qajar tribe (ʿAżod-al-Dawla, p. 110; Vaziri, 2006, p. 759, footnote). His father, Mehdi-Qoli Khan, was the brother of Āḡā Moḥammad Khan Qajar and a paternal uncle of Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah, while his mother, Āsia Ḵānom, was the daughter of Moḥammad Khan Qawānlu. There are no references to Ebrāhim Khan’s birth date, but we know that his father died early, during the siege of Astarābād by Karim Khan Zand when Ebrāhim Khan was a child. After this event, Āḡā Moḥammad Khan married Ebrāhim Khan’s mother to Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah, and raised and nurtured Ebrāhim Khan as his own son, together with his other nephews, Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah and his brother Ḥosayn-Qoli Khan.

The members of the Royal or Kajar tribe were all congregated together and wore the old court costume which was obligatory on all alike at the beginning of the century and which consists of a lofty and voluminous Kashmir more probably Kerman turban big flowing Kashmir cloaks and the well known red leggings or chnkshurs which the English ministers and plenipotentiaries were obliged to pull on over their breeches when attending the audiences of Fath Ali Shah but of wearing which they were ultimately relieved by treaty Here I was met by the Lord Chamberlain or master of the ceremonies known as the Zahir ed Dowleh Supporter of the Government a young man of magnificent stature and singularly handsome countenance who belongs to the Kajar House and is married to a favourite daughter of the Shah This gorgeous individual was clothed in a resplendent white frock coat and trousers beneath his Kashmir robe of state a jewelled sword hung at his side a portrait of the Shah set in diamonds depended from his neck and he carried a silver wand or staff of office I was conducted to a room next to that in which the Shah was about to appear the uplifted sashes of both apartments opening on to the garden where on the broad paved pathway running in front and down the central alleys between the tanks and flower beds were disposed in order the various participators in the ceremonial A little to the right of the middle spot stood the Naib es Sultaneh the third son of the Shah and Commander in Chief of the army standing at the head of a long line of field marshals and generals His bosom blazed with decorations and was crowned by a light blue ribbon that might have been mistaken for that of St Patrick Next to him also in field marshal's uniform and with a tiny sword stood the diminutive favourite of the Shah whose features had become so familiar in Europe during the royal journey of the preceding summer Next in order and accentuating the ludicrous contrast came a tottering <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gM0oAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA324&ots=CsvtXNN...">Persia and the Persian Question By George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon</a>