Haji Ebrahim Khan Kalantar (Etemad Ol-Doleh) Sadr-e Azam^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1745 - 1801  (56 years)

• Name	Ebrahim Khan Kalantar (Etemad Ol-Doleh) Sadr-e Azam
  Title	Haji
  Birth	1745
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1786	Shiraz, Iran
  	Lord Mayor (kalantar) of Shiraz during the late Zand era
  Occupation	1791-1792	Fars province, Iran
  	Appointed Beglerbegi of Fars
  Occupation	1795 - 1801	Iran
  	The Prime Minister of the Qajar’s Aga Mohammad Shah and Fath Ali Shah
  Death	15 Apr 1801
  	Cause: Boiled in a vat of oil by order of Fath Ali Shah - Qajar
  Notes	Helped Qajar's come to throne, subsequently fell from favor and was killed along with all his children except one Ali Akbar Khan Kalantar (Mayor) of Shiraz under the later Zands, whom he betrayed to Agha Mohammad Khan, the first Qajar Shah, and was rewarded by being named chief minister. Brought his family to Tehran, and soon according to Mirza Hassan e Fasai, the governorship of the whole of Persia was held by brothers and sons of Haji Ebrahim Khan. The pattern, ferquently observed in Iranian history, that the aquisition of too much power by a subject in an absolute monarchy is a risky and often dangerous move, proved true: Fath Ali Shah retaliated in 1801 by Having Haji Ebrahim killed, and his brothers and sons either killed, blinded or castrated. Ali Akbar Khan, Haji Ebrahim's fourth son, who was young and was thought to have been dying of cholera, was spared Fath Ali Shah's revenge Modern Iran - The Dialectics of Continuity and Change; Michael E. Bonine and Nikki R. Keddie. SUNY Haji Ebrahim was killed 1801 in a vat of boiling oil by order of Fath Ali Shah. EBRAHEM KALANTAR , Haji Mirza MOHAMMAD Kalantar and Etemad-al-Dawla (b. 1158/1745, d. 1215/1800 or 1216/1801), lord mayor (kalantar) of Shiraz during the late Zand era, the first grand vizier (sadr-e azam), and a major political figure of the Qajar period. Background: He was the third one of Mohammad-Hashem, the warden (kadkhoda) of the Balakaft quarter and later chief warden(kadhoda-bashi)of the five Haydari quarters of Shiraz. His family, the Hashemiya, was of mercantile origin, owned estates in the Fars province, and was involved in the city administration. His maternal lineage reportedly goes back to Qewam-al-Din Hasan, the minister of the 14th-century Muzaffarid dynasty (after whom the influential house of Qawam[-al-Molk] was named), but his paternal Jewish ancestry cannot be established beyond doubt. Fasaai, ed. Rastgar, I, pp. 679-80; II, pp. 960-70; for his family tree, see Arif Irazi, pp. 339, 342; Fasaai, tr. Busse, app. IV, pp. 430-31). Encyclopedia Iranica One of Ebrahim Khan Kalantar's daughters married Mohammad Taghi Mirza Hesam Ol Saltaneh (Born 1791 Died 1861 Fakhr Ol Hajieh Another one of Ebrahim Khan Kalantar's daughters married Mirza Abol Hassan Khan, ilchi Born 1776 died 1846 Another one of Ebrahim Khan Kalantar's daughters married Mohammad Hossein Khan Nezam Ol Doleh died 1823 Appointed Jomadi II January 1795 Source: Heribert Busse - History of Persia under Qajar Rule Served as Prime Minister Source: Heribert Busse - History of Persia under Qajar Rule Appointed Beglerbegi of Fars 1791-1792 Source: Heribert Busse - History of Persia under Qajar Rule One of his daughters married Mohammad Hossein Khan Amin Ol Doleh Esfahani, nephew of Mirza Abol Hassan Khan ilchi. Another one of his daughters married and had a son Ebrahim. Ebrahim married a daughter of Fathali Shah. The Prime Minister of the Qajar’s Aga Mohammad Khan and Fath Ali Shah According to a British document “Persian Statesman and Notables” Haji Ebrahim Khan became kadkhuda Bashi after his father’s death, was at first Kalantar of Shiraz, then Beglar Beghi of Fars, and finally Fath Ali Shah’s Sadr-e-azam, with the title of Etemad douleh. As he gave all the important appointments and governments to members of his family and personal servants, he soon had many enemies, who in 1801, persuaded the Shah to give orders for the extermination of the whole family. Emissaries from the court were secretly sent to the various towns where members of the family resided, and on a fixed day, 15th April of the same year, some were killed, others blinded and otherwise mutilated, and all their property confiscated; very few members of the family escaped. Haji Ebrahim Khan was blinded and had his tongue cut out, and sent to Talikan and killed shortly after, according to popular report, by being boiled in oil. Daughter, married Prince Mohammad Taghi Mirza (Hessam os-Soltaneh) full brother of Maryam Khanom. (b. 1206--d.?), 7th son of Fath Ali Shah Qajar by Zeynab Khanoum, sister of Ali Khan Bakhtiari. Their offspring (?). [5]
  Person ID	I26	Ghavami English
  Last Modified	18 May 2008

  
  

  Father	Haji Mohammad Hashem II, (Kalantar) Kadkhoda Bashi   d. 1785
  Mother	Unknown 1366
  Family ID	F16	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hajieh Bibi Zeinab
  Children	1. Mirza Mohammad Khan Biglarbeigi I   d. 15 Apr 1801 + 2. Haji Assadollah Khan (Hokmran),   b. 1782   d. 1864 (Age 82 years) + 3. Fathollah Khan,   b. 1798   d. 1826 (Age 28 years)   4. Hajieh Khanom Kouchek   5. Hajieh Sharaf Nessa Khanom   6. Hajieh Molkijan Khanom   7. Hajieh Hossnijan Khanom
  Family ID	F15	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Hajieh Khadijeh Soltan Beigom
  Children	1. Haji Mirza Alireza,   b. 1788   d. 1863 (Age 75 years)   2. Hajieh Khanjan Khanom   3. Hajieh Bibijan Khanom   4. Hajieh Nourijan Khanom + 5. Haji Mirza Ali Akbar Khan Ghavam Ol-Molk, I,   b. 1785   d. 1865 (Age 80 years)   6. Ali Reza Ghavam,   b. 1785   7. Banou Khanom (Shirazi)   8. unknown 760 (Place Holder)
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2009

  
  

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  Occupation - Lord Mayor (kalantar) of Shiraz during the late Zand era - 1786 - Shiraz, Iran Occupation - Appointed Beglerbegi of Fars - 1791-1792 - Fars province, Iran Occupation - The Prime Minister of the Qajar’s Aga Mohammad Shah and Fath Ali Shah - 1795 - 1801 - Iran  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Haji Ebrahim Khan Etemad Ol-Doleh
  		Close-up of Haji Ebrahim Khan Etemad Ol-Doleh
  		Agha Mohammad Khan and his grand vizier Ebrahim Khan Kalantar Painting of Agha Mohammad Khan (right) and his grand vizier Ebrahim Khan Kalantar (left)
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  		0026 - Haji Ebrahim Khan Kalantar Etemad Ol-Doleh Sadr-e Azam -01.jpg Haji Ebrahim Khan Kalantar Etemad Ol-Doleh Sadr-e Azam

  
  

  Histories		Encyclopedia Iranica on Ebrahim Kalantar http://www.iranica.com/
  		Encyclopedia Iranica Mirza Abol Hassan Khan Ilci http://www.iranica.com/
  		The Story of Kouh-e Noor and Daryay-e Noor Diamonds
  		Fath Ali Shah Qajar

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Busse, History of Persia under Qajar Rule, (Columbia University Press), ISBN: 0-231-03197-1. [S7] Encyclopaedia Iranica , (Columbia University). http://www.iranica.com/articles/v8/v8f1/v8f1109.html [S12] George P. Churchill, Persian Statesmen and Notables, (Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India 1906). [S21] John Piggot, Persia - Ancient & Modern, 73 and 74 (Reliability: 3). …It was not until November 13, 1800, that the embassy entered Teheran. As nothing of importance is done in Persia without referring to the astrologers, Captain Malcolm consulted one of the most famous of these, to hear the most propitious hour on which to enter the city. The learned man after much study ascertained that half-past 2 p.m. on the above-mentioned day would do admirably, and exactly to the minute the principal gate was passed. An envoy should take care in these matters to consult the prejudices of the people. Three days after, the mission proceeded to the Persian court, “the threshold of the world’s glory;” but before noticing its reception, it may be interesting to note the impression created on Captain Malcolm, by Haji Ibrahim, the celebrated king-maker, “who, without any pretensions to military talent, and without learning sufficient to write a note or read three lines, has overcome heroes, established sovereigns on the throne of Persia, and, by his firmness and wisdom, given a peace and tranquility to his native land beyond what it has known for a century.” He was at first disappointed, when he saw, instead of the magnificent personage of his imagination, “a heavy-looking man, dressed in very plain clothes, enter the room, and proceed towards his seat, with a rolling of the body that almost approached to a waddle. His features were rather coarse, and his eyes, though clear, had nothing of the piercing or searching qualities” he had anticipated. As to his manners, they did not appear to have changed with his condition, but to be still those of a good respectable citizen of Shiraz. “But,” he goes on to say, “before the half hour expired, which he passed in conversation with the Elehee, my mind had undergone another change, for there was in all ho said a good sense, a sincerity, and a strength that quite convinced one of the justice of the fame he had acquired.” It is hardly necessary to say that in the above account the Elchee is Captain Malcolm himself, though he writes as if he were a third person, listening to the conversation... Captain Malcolm on Ebrahim Kalantar: [S17] Arian Zarrinkafsch-Bahman.