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| Head of the Council of state | |
| In office September 1858 – November 1862 | |
| Monarch | Naser al-Din Shah Qajar |
| Preceded by | Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri (prime minister) |
| Succeeded by | Mirza Mohammad Khan Sepahsalar (prime minister) |
| Personal details | |
| Died | November 1862 Mashhad, Qajar Iran |
| Resting place | Imam Reza shrine, Mashhad |
| Relatives | Mirza Bozorg Qa'em-Maqam (cousin) |
Jafar Khan Moshir od-Dowleh (Persian: جعفرخان مشیرالدوله), also known as Mohandes Bashi (مهندسباشی), was an Iranian politician, who was the head of the Council of state from September 1858 until his death in November 1862. His office was similar to the prime minister office, which was vacant during his tenure.
He was the son of Mirza Mohammad Taqi Vazir and nephew of Haji Mirza Hasan, who was the father of Mirza Bozorg Qa'em-Maqam. It was under the latter and his son Abol-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam that Jafar Khan received his education, which took place in the city of Tabriz. In 1815, together with four other students, Jafar Khan was sent by the crown prince Abbas Mirza to study in England. Their journey to England, referred to as a wanderjahren by the modern historian Nile Green, was an interchange of ideas, which had been made by possible by the diplomatic exchanges between Iran and Great Britain. Jafar Khan is often mentioned in the travelogue one of the students, Mirza Saleh Shirazi. Each student had an area of expertise, with Jafar Khan's being centered around mathematics and engineering. They returned to Iran in 1819, becoming known as the "first caravan of enlightenment".
References
- ^ Davud 2019.
- Green 2009, p. 296.
Sources
- Davud, Seyyed Ali Al-i (2019). "جعفرخان مشیرالدوله". The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (in Persian).
- Green, Nile (2009). "Among the dissenters: reciprocal ethnography in nineteenth-century Inglistan". Journal of Global History. 4 (2). Cambridge University Press: 293–315. doi:10.1017/S1740022809003167.
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