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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, a bureaucrat from Farahan who served as the chief minister of the crown prince Abbas Mirza. It was under Mirza Bozorg Qa'em-Maqam and his son Abol-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam that Jafar Khan received his education in the city of Tabriz. In 1815, together with four other students, Jafar Khan was sent by 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. He became an expert in both general engineering and military engineering, including artillery and fort construction. The students returned to Iran in 1819, becoming known as the "first caravan of enlightenment".
Having returned to Iran, the goal of the students was to use their new knowledge to change Iran both internally and its relations with its neighbours. Their newly acquired information from outside was transferred into Iranian society. Jafar Khan became the nation's chief engineer and was granted the village of Varnakesh as his personal property. He spent several years in Tabriz until 1836, when he was appointed by Mohammad Shah Qajar (r. 1834–1848) as the Iranian ambassador to the Ottoman court in Constantinople.
References
- ^ Davud 2019.
- Behrooz 2023, p. 165.
- Green 2009, p. 296.
- Green 2009, p. 297.
Sources
- Behrooz, Maziar (2023). Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-7556-3737-9.
- 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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