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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 .’ [26r] (56/126)
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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TEHERAN—NOTABLES.
49
customs and treasury, retaining ministry of posts as well. Married
a daughter of the Shah by Hazrat Ulia,
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
Firma’s sister, 18lh
January, 1898, divorcing his first wife, the daughter of Mushir ed
Dowleh.
53. MUKHBER ED DOWLEH, HUSAIN KULI KHAN—
Eldest son of the late Mukhber ed Dowleh, Ali Kuli Khan. The
family, which is said to trace its descent to the poet Shaikh Kemal
Khojendi, is well known in Persia, and a short account of it is
necessary. It came into prominence with the present Mukhber ed
DowlelTs grandfather, Iteza Kuli Khan Tabaristani, a son of
Muhammad JIadi Kemal, who was a chamberlain of Aka Muham
mad Khan, the first Kajar Shah. Peza Kuli Khan was born in
Teheran in 1800,'and having resided for some time at Barfurush, in
the old district of Tabaristan, took the surname of Hedayat i
Tabaristani. When about twenty years of age, he went to Shiraz,
where he served the
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
Firma, Husain Ali Mirza, son of Fath
Ali Shah, and afterwards the princes Feridan Mirza and Firuz
Mirza (sons of Valiahd Abbas Mirza). Having written various
poems for Fath Ali Shah, he received the title of Malik-ush
Shoara (King of Poets), and was made Khan. In 1838 Muhammad
Shah appointed him tutor to his son Abbas Mirzu (died as Mulk
Ara in 1897), and in 1851 he was sent as special envoy by Nassir
ed Din Shah to the Khan of Khiva. On his return, he was
appointed director of the new College (Madrasseh dar et Funun),
which post he held until his death in 1871.
His son Ali Kuli Khan came to Teheran in 1839, entered the
New College when it was founded in 1849, accompanied his father
to Khiva in 1851, constructed the first telegraph line in Persia,
from Teheran to Sultanieh, in 18G0, and was made a Sarhang. In
1862 he built the telegraph line to Resht and was made Sertip of
the third class. In 1862 he became director of telegraphs. In
1865 he received the rank of Sertip of the first class, and in
1869 the title of Mukhber ed Dowleh. In 1877 he was made
minister of telegraphs, which post he held until his death,
16th July, 1897. From 1880 until April, 1897, he was also
Yazir i Ulum (Public Instruction), and from 1882 until his death
Yazir i Maadan (Mines). In November, 1896, he was appointed
minister of interior, but resigned that appointment four months
later. He accompanied the late Shah to Europe in 1873. He
went to Europe in 1884, to effect the purchase of the steamer
“ Persepolis ” at Bremerhaven, and again accompanied the late
Shah to Europe in 1889, and made the pilgrimage to Mekka in
the same year.
[344] E
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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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