Ibrahim Khan Kalantar

Portrait of Ibrahim Khan Kalantar

Hajji Ibrahim Khan Kalantar Shirazi ( Persian حاجى ابراهيم خان كلانتر شيرازى Hajji Ebrahim Chan Kalantar-e Shirazi , DMG Ḥāǧǧī Ebrāhīm Ḫān Kalāntar-e Šīrāzī ; † April 14, 1801 ) was Great Vizier of Persia from 1794 to 1801.

Life

Ibrahim Kalantar came from an originally Jewish family who traced their origins back to Ghavam ad-Din Hasan, who had held a high position among the Muzaffarids in the 14th century . After Nadir Shah's death , he became mayor of Shiraz and later governor of Fars province . Towards the end of the Zand rule , he allied himself with the Qajar Aga Mohammed Khan , gave him Shiraz and refused his rival Lotf Ali Khan to enter the city. So he helped the Qajar dynasty to power. Under Aga Mohammed Khan and his successor Fath Ali Shah , he was Persian Grand Vizier from November 1794 until his death, after holding the same office under the previous dynasty, the Zand princes . He played a major role in the coronation of Fath Ali Shah in June 1797, but he later became suspicious of the Grand Vizier. In 1801 he had him arrested and brought to Taleghan in Alborz . A month later, Ibrahim Khan was tortured and executed on the orders of the Shah. His possessions were confiscated and transferred to his successor and the ruling court.

Decades later, the Qajar Naser ad-Din Shah addressed Adolphe Crémieux , the chairman of the Alliance Israélite Universelle , in Paris with the following words: “I will not forget that it was a Jew, Hajji Ibrahim, who helped the Qajars on the To lift the throne ”.

Ibrahim Kalantar's descendants, the Ghavam family, exercised a decisive influence in Persia until the end of the Qajar dynasty. One of his descendants, Ali Ghavam, became the first husband of Ashraf Pahlavi , daughter of Reza Shah Pahlavi .

Web links

• Ebrāhīm Kalāntar Šīrāzī Encyclopedia Iranica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outcaste (RLE Iran D): Jewish Life in Southern Iran, Lawrence Loeb, S. 32, 2012th