"بلاد فارس. ملاحظات عن السير الذاتية لأعضاء العائلة الملكية والأعيان والتجار ورجال الدين، أعدَّها المقدم هـ. بيكوت، الملحق العسكري في طهران." [و‎‎٣‎٠] (١٢٦/٦٤)

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be employed in Southern Persia, or in any place where he might
injure British Trade. This was agreed to, and Nizam es Saltaneh
became minister of justice and commerce in Teheran.
He has considerable influence, and has amassed great wealth,
possessing landed property of considerable value in Southern Persia,
and on the Karun Kiver.
Age about 60.
80. NURI FAMILY—
1 his family has its name from the Mazandarani district of Nur,
and came into prominence at the end of the eighteenth century
when Aka Baba Khan Nuri received an appointment at the court
of Aka Muhammad Khan the first Kajar Shah. Aka Baba Khan
had three sons, Mirza Asad Ullah Khan, Nasr Ullah Khan and
Muhammad Zaki Khan, and in 1798, when Path Ali Shah
appointed his son, Firman Firma Husain Ali Mirza governor of
bars and sent 80 Nuri tufangchis with him as a special body
guard, Aka Baba Khan’s two younger sons, Nasr Ullah Khan, and
Muhammad Zaki Khan, as well as Hajji Shukr Ullah Khan, a son
of the eldest son, went to Shiraz, and their descendants are there
now and known as the Nuris of Shiraz.
Nasr Ullah Khan died in 1800. Muhammad Zaki Khan
became vizir of Fars in 1823, and of his three sons the eldest,
Mirza Naim, became Lashkar Navis Bashi of Fars and died 1875 ;
the second, Khair Ullah Khan, was murdered by some Khalaj
robbers ; and the third, Abbas Kuli Khan, entered military service
and rose to be commander of the Kazvin regiments. Mirza Naim’s
eldest son, Mirza Ali Muhammad Khan, succeeded his father as
Lashkar Navis Bashi of Fars, died 1878, and was succeeded by his
son Luff Ali Khan, who was born in 1860, and is now living in
Shiraz. Another son of Mirza Naim was Mirza Abdullah Khan
Mustanfi, who died at Teheran, and whose three sons, Fath el Mulk
(q.v.), Mirza Muhammad Husain Khain, and Zain el Abedin Khan,
are now living in Shiraz. The murdered Khair Ullah Khan’s
eldest son is Abdul Husain Khan, born 1828, Sartip of Artillery,
and now living in Shiraz, and his eldest son is Faraj Ullah Kian,
Sartip, who married a daughter of Nassir el Mulk, son of Kavvam
el Mulk 1 (see Hashimiyeh family), was several times governor of
Bandar Abbasi and other small districts of Fars, and is now living
in Shiraz. Of Abbas Kuli Khan, the third son of Muhammad Zaki
Khan, one son, Khan Baba Khan, Sartip, is now living.
Hajji Shukr Ullah Khan, son of Mirza Asad Ullah Khan, who
accompanied his uncles to Shiraz in 1798, married a daughter of
Firman Firma Husain Ali Mirza in 1826, became Amir i Divan