#qajar dynasty

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me and my wife

Amorous Couple Painting, Oil on canvas, Iran, Early 19th century, Qajar Dynasty

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some quick Qajar clothing stuff

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BOTEH

A leaflike shape or stylized teardrop that became known as paisley in the West. Persian for bush or cluster of leaves, boteh may be highly detailed or simple, and the motif often appears in the field of a rug, forming an overall pattern.

From wikipedia:

The boteh (Persian: بته), is an almond or pine cone-shaped motif in ornament with a sharp-curved upper end. Though of Persian origin, it is very common and called buta in India, Azerbaijan, Turkey and other countries of the Near East. Via Kashmir shawls it spread to Europe at least in 19th century, where patterns using it are known since 1960s as paisleys, as Paisley, Renfrewshire in Scotland was a major centre making them.

Some design scholars believe the boteh is the convergence of a stylized floral spray and a cypress tree: a Zoroastrian symbol of life and eternity. The "bent" cedar is also a sign of strength and resistance but modesty. The floral motif was originated in the Sassanid dynasty and later in the Safavid dynasty of Persia (1501–1736), and was a major textile pattern in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties.

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Taj al-Mulouk Khanoum Umm al-Khakan (died November 1, 1909) was the royal consort of shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar (r. 1896–1907).

She was the daughter of Mizra Muhammad Taqui Khan-e Farahani and princess Ezzat Al Dawla Malikzada Khanoum and niece of shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (r. 1848–1896). She was the mother of shah Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar.

She died on November 1, 1909, in the Shirin Palace in Kermanshah whilst on her way to Karbala.

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"GOVERNOR OF TABRIZ MONSTER OF CRUELTY SAYS CAMBRIDGE MAN," Vancouver Sun. October 15, 1912. Page 1. ---- Professor Edward Granville Brown Exhorts Great Britain to Put a Stop to Horrors Practised by Ruler. ---- POLITICAL ENEMIES BRUTALLY TORTURED ---- Those Who Differ With His Beliefs Are Treated to Fiendish Practises by Monster. ---- (Special Cable to The Sun.) LONDON, Oct. 14.-Dreadful tales of fiendish cruelty are told of the governor of Tabriz by Edward Granville Brown, professor of Arabic at Cambridge university, who, through the medium of the press, exhorts the British government to interfere with a man whose sole delight is to torture and kill those of his subjects who profess an opposite political opinion to his own.

Incidentally it may be said that the Liberals of Tabriz are the sufferers.

Shujand Dewla, governor of Tabriz, writes the professor, is a monster rather than a human being, taking a cold blooded delight in hanging, stabbing and even cutting men in two like sheep, if he believed them to be unsatisfied with his rule.

It is a common occurrence, writes the professor, to see men lying in a dying condition in the streets of Tabriz, with tongues cut out, eyes gauged from their sockets, and horse-shoes nailed to their bare feet.

Concluding, Professor Brown declares that nothing is thought too fiendish by the governor of the province, and deaths through the plentiful application of the whip are common, while he asserts that the governor has been known to have the mouths of those suspected of Liberal principles, sewn up.

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The colors of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran

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The colors of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran

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The colors of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran

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Qajar woman

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The colors of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran

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Malek Jahan Khanom (26 February 1805 – 2 April 1873) was the wife of Mohammad Shah Qajar of Persia and the mother of Naser al-Din Shah. She was the de facto regent of Persian Empire for one month, from 5 September until 5 October in 1848, between the death of her husband and the accession to the throne of her son.

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The colors of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran

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The colors of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran

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The colors of Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran

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