Nasseredin Shah

Nasser-Al-DIN Shah Qajar ناصرالدینشاه , also transcribed Nassereddin Shah or Nassiruddin Shah , born the July 16th 1831 and died on May 1st 1896 was Shah of Iran of the September 13rd 1848 until its death. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar.

He was with Tabriz when he learned death from his father in 1848, and he went up on the Trône of the Peacock with the assistance of Amir Kabir. He tried to bring back Eastern part of the Persia (particularly Herat), which had passed under British influence, the influence of Iran, but he essuya an attack of the British with Bushehr and had to be withdrawn. Herat forms today part of the Afghanistan. Nassereddin Shah was forced to sign the Déclaration of Paris, giving to Afghanistan supremacy on the old Persian territories.

Although Nassereddin had tendencies reformists rather early, it had a style of rather dictatorial government. He persecuted the Babis and the bahâ' is, and that still increased after disturbed Babi tried to assassinate it in 1852. He was the first Perse monarch to visit Europe in 1871, then in 1873 (he then saw a review of the fleet of the Royal Navy as well as a military operation of great scale in Russia, which brought it has to found the Brigade cossack Persian) and finally in 1889. During its voyages, it was impressed by the technology which it had seen in Europe. During its visit with the the United Kingdom, Nassereddin Shah was made knight of the Order of the Garter, one of the noblest British orders, by the Reine Victoria. He was the first Perse monarch with being made knight of this kind.

In 1890, it met the British Gerald Talbot and signed a contract granting to him the property of the Iranian tobacco industry, but was then forced to cancel the contract after Mirza Reza Shirazi had promulgated a Fatwa which returned the culture, the trade and cigarette smoking Haram . That had even effects on the personal life of the Shah since his wives did not authorize it to use the tobacco.

The Shah made other attempts to grant more advantages to Europe, in particular by allotting the property of the incomes of the Perses customs to Paul Julius Reuter.

He was a patron of photography and was done itself to photograph several thousands of times. He was first Iranian to be made photograph.

Nassereddin Shah introduced many Western innovations in Iran, of which a system of modern Station, the rail-bound transport, a banking system and publication of newspapers.

He was the first Iranian monarch to write his memories.

Nassereddin Shah was assassinated by Mirza Reza Kermani, a partisan of Aldine Jamal Al-Afghani, whereas it had come to request with the mausoleum of Shah-Abdol-Azim. It is said that the gun used to assassinate it old and was rusted, and that if it had carried a thicker coat, or if it had been made draw above moreover further, it could have survived the attempted murder.

It is buried with the sanctuary of Shah-Abdol-Azim, with Rey, not far from Teheran, where it was assassinated, beside his wife Jeyran Khanum. Its marble tomb stone of only one holding, representing its complete effigy, is now preserved at the Palace of Golestan in Teheran, and is recognized to be a chief of work of the sculpture of the Qajare time.

See too

Articles

Dynasty Qajar
Art Qajar

External bonds

Portrait of Nasser-Al-DIN Shah (in English)
His visit in England

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