'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎210r] (424/610)

with Sipah Salar, in the house of I gha Kamal, brother of Saiyid
Abdulla, the prominent revolutionary Mujtahid killed in 1909 .
After the fall of Sipah Salar’s Cabinet in August 1916 he con
spired with Mirza Kuchik Khan (No. 75) and Ihsanullah Khan
(No. 72), Salar Fatih undertaking to go and foster rebellion in
Kujur, Kuchik Khan undertaking to do the same in Gilan, and
they agreed subsequently to join forces. Salar Fatih returned
with the other refugees to Kujur, expelled Sipah Salar’s agents
at once from Kujur, and two months later from Pul.
In the summer of 1916 when European children and women
were preparing to evacuate Tehran before the Turkish advance
from Hamadan, he invited them to go via Kujur.
In 1918 and 1919 he was leader of the Kujurls in their forays
into Tunakabun and although not a member of the “II” of
Khwajahvand its leaders were guided by him as the more skil
ful intriguer. In 1918 he went on from Khurramabad in
Tunakabun to Kasma to confer with Mirza Kuchik Khan and
the Jangall leaders. In the summer of 1919 he was threatened
by a Cossack force from Tunakabun, but refused to come to
Tehran until he received a guarantee of safety, ‘ tamlnameh,’
countersigned by the British Legation. He is still (November
1920) in Tehran and has been again reconciled with Sipah Salar,
His rapacity was not limited to Sipah Salar’s property
and he is hated by the people of the lowlands of Kalaristaq
and of Tunakabun for the losses they sustained at the hands
of the Kujuris under his leadership.
His career is of interest as an illustration of how a peasant
lad can rise to position and power, of the Persian attributes of
intrigue and ingratitude, and as a type of the adventurer to
whom the disorganization resulting from the revolution has
afforded special facilities and impunity.
No. 62. SARDAR Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. IQTIDAR, Murtaza Quit Khan.
Second son of Sipah Salar (No. 31a) and on bad terms with
and very jealous of his elder brother Amir Asad (No. 109). He
was Governor of Tunakabun for short periods and finally joined
the Kujurls in their first foray in 1918 into Tunakabun in order
to drive out his brother.
After this episode he retired in disgrace to Mazandaran
where he lives at Pahnab, North of Sari, and farms some villages.
He is a voluble little man, usually considered of weak intellect.