Maryam Khanom Bani Isra'il (Persian: مریم خانم یهودی; fl. 1804) was the royal consort of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–1797) and then the thirty-ninth royal consort of Agha Mohammad's nephew and successor Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834).
Life
She was from Māzandarān and of Jewish origin, and is sometimes referred to as "Maryam Khanom Bani Isra'il" (Arabic: بني إسرائيل "sons - or children - of Israel") to distinguish her from Maryam Khanom Gorji, another consort of Fath-Ali. She was reported to have "no rival in beauty".
When she was widowed the first time, Hossein Khan Sardar, the brother of the new shah wished to marry her, but Fath-Ali instead married her himself, which caused a conflict between them.
She had eleven children, among them prince Maḥmud Mirzā (1799–1835), Homāyun Mirzā (1801–1856) and Aḥmad-ʿAli Mirzā (born 1804).
References
- "Maryam Khanom". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- "Children of Fath Ali Shah Qajar". The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- ^ Lavi, Habib; Ibrami, Hushang (1999). "Fears and Hopes" (PDF). Comprehensive history of the Jews of Iran: The outset of the diaspora. Costa Mesa, CA, UD: Mazda Publishers in association with the Cultural Foundation of Habib Levy. pp. 384–385. ISBN 9781568590868. OCLC 40940051.
- Soltan Ahmad Mirza Azod Al-Duleh (1979) . Navāʾi, ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn (ed.). Tāriḵ-e ażodi [Azodi history] (in Persian). Tehran: Nashr-i ʻIlm. ISBN 9789644050015. OCLC 755977893, 162299837. 1888 edition online at Tarikh-i ʻAzudi at the HathiTrust Digital Library
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