PERSIA

The Afshar Dynasty

GENEALOGY

• 1) Imam Quli Beg-e Afshar Qiriqlu. b. at Kubhan in Northern Khorasan. Governor of the fortress of Khelat in Khorasan. m. (first) before 9^th November 1676, ... Khanum (d. at Khiva, before 5^th April 1707). m. (second) ... Khanum (m. second, after the death of her husband, Baba ‘Ali Beg-e Kusa Afshar Ahmadlu, sometime Governor of Abivard, who d. 1716). He d. before 18^th May 1703 (bur. Chapshalu), having had issue, two sons and a daughter:
  • a) Nazr Quli Beg-e Afshar Qiriqlu, who ascended the throne as H.M. Nadir Shah, Shahanshah of Persia – see below.
  • b) General (Sardar) H.H. Muhammad Ibrahim Quli Khan-e Afshar Qiriqlu, Zahir ud-Daula. Assumed the Governorship of the fortress of Khelat on the death of his brother, ostensibly as regent for the minor Nadir but refused to yield it when he came of age. Governor-General (Beglarbegi) and C-in-C (Sepahsalar) of Azerbaijan 1736-1738. m. (first) a daughter of Tauhid Khan Sultan Afshar. m. (second) at Mashhad, Khorasan, October 1730, Shahzadi Gauhar Taj Begum [Nawab Zinat Sultan Begum] (d. Autumn/Winter, 1736, and bur. Mashhad, Khorasan), a daughter of H.M. Al-Sultan al-‘Adil al-Kamil al-Hadi al-Wathiq al-Sultan bar al-Sultan al-Khaqan bar al-Khaqan Abu’l Muzaffar Abu’l Mansur Shah Sultan Husain Padshah Khan bin Shah Sulaiman al-Musavi al-Husaini al-Safawi Bahadur Khan, Sahib-i-Qiran, Shahanshah of Persia. m. (third) after 1730, Badr Sharaf Begum, former wife of General (Sardar) H.E. Muhammad Saidal Khan Nasar Barrizai, and eldest daughter of H.E. Mirza Sayyid Muhammad ‘Ali al-Husaini al-Marashi, sometime Naib Mutawali of the Shrine of the Imam Reza at Mashhad and Governor of Qazvin. He was k. by the Lazgis, near Jar, between 14^th November and 12^th December 1738 (bur. Mashhad, Khorasan), having had issue, at least seven sons:
    • i) ‘Ali Quli Khan-e Afshar, who ascended the throne as H.M. ‘Ali Adil Shah, Shahanshah of Persia (s/o Tauhid Khan’s daughter) – see below.
    • ii) ...
    • iii) Muhammad ‘Ali Beg-e Afshar, who ascended the throne as H.M. Ibrahim Shah, Shahanshah of Persia (third son) – see below.Copyright©Christopher Buyers
    • iv) Sultan Husain Nuru’llah. Governor-General (Beglarbegi) of Khorasan 1748-1749. Taken prisoner along with his brother Ibrahim in 1749 and dispatched to Mashhad. Subsequently blinded during the journey, at the same time as Ibrahim’s murder. v) Fath ‘Ali Khan-e Afshar.
    • vi) Husain Beg-e Afshar.Copyright©Christopher Buyers
    • vii) Kasim Khan-e Afshar (s/o Badr Sharaf). m. Gauhar un-nisa Begum, daughter of his maternal uncle, Mirza Sayyid Muhammad al-Husaini al-Marashi. He had issue, two daughters:
      • (1) A daughter. m. H.M. Al-Sultan bar al-Sultan, al-Khaqan bar al-Khaqan, Al-Sultan Shahrukh Shah al-Musavi al-Husaini Adamu’llah Zillu’llah Ijlal Daulat wa Sultana, Shahanshah of Persia (b. at Isfahan, 21^st March 1734; d. at the Citadel of Damghan, after May 1796, bur. Mashad al-Muqaddas, Tus, Khorasan), eldest son of General H.R.H. Shahzada Reza Quli Mirza, Nai’b us-Sultana, Viceroy of Persia, by his wife, H.R.H. Shahzadi Fatima Sultan Begum, daughter H.M. Al-Sultan al-‘Adil al-Kamil al-Hadi al-Wathiq al-Sultan bar al-Sultan al-Khaqan bar al-Khaqan Abu’l Muzaffar Abu’l Mansur Shah Sultan Husain Padshah Khan bin Shah Sulaiman al-Musavi al-Husaini al-Safawi Bahadur Khan, Sahib-i-Qiran, Shahanshah of Persia. She had issue – see below.
      • (2) Another daughter. m. H.R.H. Shahzada Nasru’llah Mirza (b. at Mashhad, 1751; d. there, 1785), son of H.M. Al-Sultan bar al-Sultan, al-Khaqan bar al-Khaqan, Al-Sultan Shahrukh Shah al-Musavi al-Husaini Adamu’llah Zillu’llah Ijlal Daulat wa Sultana, Shahanshah of Persia – see below.Copyright©Christopher Buyers
    • Five younger brothers of Adil Shah and Ibrahim Khan were strangled on the orders of Shahrukh, ca December 1749.
  • a) A sister of Nadir Shah. She had issue, two sons:
    • i) General (Sardar) Amir Aslan Khan-e Afshar Qiriqlu (nephew of Nadir). Viceroy of Georgia 1737-1740, Governor-General (Beglarbegi) of Azerbaijan and Zanjan 1747-1749. He was k. (his head pounded in a mortar) on the orders of Sultan Ibrahim Afshar, at Tabriz, 23^rd September 1748, having had issue, a son:
      • (1) Sharaf Beg-e Afshar Qiriqlu. m. Hur Jahan Begum (d. before 9^th June 1766), youngest daughter of H.E. Mirza Sayyid Muhammad ‘Ali al-Husaini al-Marashi, sometime Naib Mutawali of the Shrine of the Imam Reza at Mashhad and Governor of Qazvin. He had issue, a son and a daughter.
    • ii) Saru Khan-e Afshar Qiriqlu (brother of Amir Aslan). m. Mehr Jahan Begum (d. at Herat, Afghanistan, after 1^st July 1764), widow of General General (Sardar) H.E. Imam Verdi Khan-e Afshar Qiriqlu, and of H.M. Shah Husain Sultan-e Hotaki, Shah of Kandahar, and daughter of H.E. Mirza Sayyid Muhammad ‘Ali al-Husaini al-Marashi, sometime Naib Mutawali of the Shrine of the Imam Reza at Mashhad, and Governor of Qazvin. He was k. by Kazem Khan of Qaraja.
• 2) Bektash Beg-e Afshar Qiriqlu. He had issue:
  • a) ‘Ali Beg-e Afshar Qiriqlu.
• 3) Babur Beg-e Afshar Qiriqlu. He d. before 18^th May 1703 (bur. beside his elder brother at Chapshalu).
• 4) xxx (one of the above?), who had issue, a son:
  • a) General (Sardar) H.E. Imam Verdi Khan-e Afshar Qiriqlu. A senior general under his cousin Nadir Shah, he held for some time the office of Nazir-i buyutat-i khassah. m. Mehr Jahan Begum (m. third, after the death of her first husband, Saru Khan-e Afshar Qiriqlu, and d. at Herat, Afghanistan, after 1^st July 1764, leaving no issue by her second and third husbands), widow of H.M. Shah Husain Sultan-e Hotaki, Shah of Kandahar, and H.E. Mirza Sayyid Muhammad ‘Ali al-Husaini al-Marashi, sometime Naib Mutawali of the Shrine of the Imam Reza at Mashhad and Governor of Qazvin. He d. after 1743. Copyright©Christopher Buyers