Naser al-Din Shah Qajar was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. Initially seeking to modernise Iran, his style of governance became more dictato
Portrait by Nadar, 1889
Naser al-Din Shah in 1873
Hassan Ali Khan Amir Nezam Garrusi received the title of Generalissimo by the Shah after commanding the Persian forces to siege Ghorian during the Second Herat War.
A group photograph taken during a garden party for the Shah at Hatfield House in July 1889. The photograph includes Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark.
Malek Jahan Khanom was one of the wives of Mohammad Shah Qajar and the mother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. She was the de facto regent of Iran for one month, from 5 September until 5 October in 1848, b
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
…He was the first modern Iranian monarch who formally visited Europe and wrote of his travels in his memoirs. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek Jahan Khanom and the third longest reigning monarch in Iranian history after Shapur II of the Sasanian dynasty and Tahmasp I of the Safavid dynasty. Naser al-Din…
Malek Jahan Khanom sitting on the steps of the Sun Throne (middle), Naser ad-Din Shah (her son, the fourth Shah of the Qajar dynasty, left), and Princess Malek Zade (her daughter, right)
An illuminated marriage contract of Malek Jahan Khanum, grand-daughter of Fath Ali Shah to Mirza Muhammad Hassan, Persia, Qajar, dated 1833–34