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‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran .’ [22v] (49/126)
The record is made up of 1 volume (60 folios). It was created in Dec 1897-8 Jul 1898. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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42
TEHERAN—NOTABLES.
21. DABIR-EL-MAMALTIC, MIRZA ISMAIL KHAN—
Son of Hakim el Mamalik, Vali, who is now consul-general at
Baghdad. Entered Foreign Office in 1897, and was immediately
after appointed secretary to Legation in Berlin, where he is now.
Age 25 ; speaks French.
22. DABIB EL MULK, MIRZA NASE ULLAH KHAN—
Son of Hajji Muhammad Husain Khan, who was the son of Badr
Khan, Jabbadar Bashi of Ears, and died in 1850 as Jabbadar Bashi
of Teheran. Dabir el Mulk was born in 1836, and succeeded his
father as Jabbadar Bashi in 1856. In 1862 he entered the Foreign
Office, and became first secretary in 1868. In 1884 he received
his present title and entered the Home Office. In 1890 he was
secretary to the Grand Vizirate, and in 1891 he became Vazir-i-
Rasayil-i-Khaseh, which post he now holds.
His son, Mirza Muhammad Husain Khan, is in the Home Office
assisting his father.
Age 61. Is a member of the council.
23. GHAFFAEI FAMILY—
The Ghaffaris, nomads of Central Arabia, were converted to Islam
during the prophet Muhammad’s lifetime, and one of their chiefs,
Abu Zarr, who was converted in 617 and died in 653, is said to
have been the fifth of the Aiab nomad chiefs who joined Muham
mad. During the Arab conquest of Persia in the seventh century
some Ghaffaris came to Persia and settled in Kashan and Kom,
where most of their descendants still are. They say that they
descend from the above-mentioned Abu Zarr, but this statement is
open to doubt. At the end of the eighteenth century, the chief of
the family was Mirza Muizz ed Din, son of Kazi Ahmad; he had
three sons, of whom the eldest was Mirza Ahmad Khan. Mirza
Ahmad Khan had ten sons, of whom the eldest was Mirza Muham
mad Mehdi Khan, who was the father of Amin ed Dowleh, Ferrukh
Khan, and of Amin-i-Khdvet, Mirza Hashim Khan. Muaven ed
Dowleh (q.v.) and A-judan-i-Makhsus (q.v.) are sons of the former,
and Amin-i-Khelvet (q.v.) and Ikbal ed Dowlth (q.v.) are sons of the
latter. Muhandis el Mamalik (q.v.) and Mirza Zain-el-Abadin Khan,
who was some time chief of the Tribunal and Foreign Office agent
at Meshed, and is at present in the Foreign Office, are sons of
Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim, the fourth son of Mirza Ahmad Khan.
Ilabbib Ullah Khan, who was educated in France, and was for
some time attached to Amin es Sultan when Sadr Azam, is a son
of Mirza Zaman Khan, the eighth son of Mirza Ahmad Khan. He
is about 54 years of age. -v
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Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in Her Majesty’s Legation. Amendments were added up until 23 January 1898. The author presented the manuscript to Charles H Hardinge (First Secretary, Foreign Office, London), 27 January 1898. The latter forwarded it to the Marquis of Salisbury (Prime Minister), 28 January 1898, who received it a month later (28 February 1898). The title page (f 1) is stamped as having belonged previously to the Government of India’s Library of the Foreign Office, Simla, where this copy was received with two other copies (two for Simla and one for Calcutta [Kolkata], three copies in total) and a letter from the Secretary of the Political and Secret Department, dated 8 July 1898 (location not disclosed). The contents are marked secret (originally ‘confidential,’ crossed out), and specified as, ‘For the use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Service only.’
The printed work comprises two ‘inclosures’ [enclosures]: firstly, Picot’s letter of presentation to Hardinge (f 2v), prefaced by Hardinge’s letter of presentation to the Marquis of Salisbury (f 2); secondly, the treatise proper (ff 3r-60v). The contents page (f 3v) lists four main sections, but without corresponding page references. Following a brief introduction (f 4), an alphabetic register [index] of names (ff 4v-11v), and a glossary of titles and terms (ff 12r-13v), the work is divided into eight chapters comprising numbered entries. The first four chapters deal with the royal family in Teheran (forty-five entries over ff 14r-19v), the notables of Teheran (ninety-seven entries over ff 20r-32v), the merchants of Teheran (twenty-eight entries over ff 33r-35v), and the clergy of Teheran (eleven entries over ff 36-37). The remaining four chapters focus on the provinces of Fars (thirty-eight entries over ff 37v-44v), Ispahan [Isfahan] (eleven entries over ff 45-47), Khorasan (fifty-nine entries over ff 47v-57v), and Tabriz (twenty-two entries over ff 58-60).
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The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. Contents page (folio 3v) and indices (folios 4v-13v) are included towards the beginning.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 60; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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