Maryam Khanom Bani Isra'il (Persian: مریم خانم یهودی; fl. 1804) was the royal consort of shah Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–1797) and then the thirty-ninth royal consort (slave concubine) of Agha Mohammad's nephew and successor Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834).[1]
Life
editShe was from Māzandarān and of Jewish origin, and so 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.[2] She was reported to have "no rival in beauty".[3]
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.[3][4]
She had eleven children, among them prince Maḥmud Mirzā (1799–1835), Homāyun Mirzā (1801–1856) and Aḥmad-ʿAli Mirzā (born 1804).
References
edit- ^ "Maryam Khanom". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- ^ "Children of Fath Ali Shah Qajar". The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- ^ a b 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) [1888]. 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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