Mohammad Qajar Shah

Mohammad Shah (محمدشاهقاجار in Persan) (1810 - 1848) was the Shah of Iran between 1835 and 1848.

Mohammad Mirza was the son of Abbas Mirza, him even the son of Fath Ali Shah Qajar. He was governor of Azerbaijan. He reaches the throne with the assistance of Mirza Abu' l-Qasim Farahani Qá' im Maqham in opposition to his uncles who claimed with the capacity.

Its reign is dominated by the influence of its second large to visir not very sympatic and large manipulator, Mirza Agassi; after having carried out its assembler and Prime Minister Qa' im Magham Farahani in 1835.

It is at its time which occurred in Iran a great political movement and monk: the Bâbisme.

During its reign it runs up against handling of England on Hérat and the Afghanistan. To circumvent the capacity of the English, Mohammad Shah sends one of his officers to the court of Louis-Philippe. In 1839 two French instructors arrive at Tabriz. Parallel to this military, and not successful mission, took place the embassy of the Count de Sercey, acompagné by the painter Eugene Flandin and the architect Pascal Coste.

Mohammad Shah is not an emblematic figure of the Dynastie Qajar. However his wife, Mahd Olia - the mother of the crown prince and future Shah Nasseredin - will exert a considerable influence during the reign of her son.

Mohammad Shah died in old 38 years of the disease of the drop.

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