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Bahman Mirza (11 October 1810 – 11 February 1884) was a Persian prince of the Qajar Dynasty, son of Abbas Mirza and grandson of Fath Ali Shah. He was Vicergerent (''vali'') of Azerbaijan and Governor-General of Tabriz. Therefore, he became one of the leading figures of the later Republic of Azerbaijan. Bahman Mirza is the ancestor of the Bahmani family with the branches of the Russian Princes Persidskii, and the Bahmanov and Kadjar lines of Azerbaijan as well as of the Iranian families Bahmani-Qajar and Bahman. Thus, Bahman Mirza was also the grandfather of Ambassador Ali Akbar Bahman. ==Life== Bahman Mirza, influenced by the European Enlightenment, was the fourth son of Prince Abbas Mirza, viceroy (''nayeb os-saltaneh'') and crown prince (''vali ahd'') of Fath Ali Shah by his first wife and cousin, Assiyeh Khanom, daughter of Amir Mohammad Khan Qajar-Davallu. Thus, with the younger Ghahreman Mirza he was the only full brother to Mohammad Shah Qajar. Bahman Mirza was born in Golestan Palace at Tehran on 11 October 1810 and educated privately in Tabriz.〔Abbas Amanat: ''Pivot of the Universe'', 1996, p. 27.〕 1831 to 1834 he was appointed governor (''hakem'') of Ardabil, in 1834 governor of Teheran and commander-in-chief (''sepah-salar''), then governor-general (''beglerbegi'') of Borujerd and Silakhor, and governor of Hamadan from 1834 to 1841.〔A. Nava’i: “Bahman Mirza”, in: ''Encyclopadia Iranica'', II, 1989, p. 490〕 After the death of his brother Ghahreman Mirza in 1839 he succeeded him as prince-governor of Azerbaijan in 1841, but was forced to resign and exiled to Tiflis in 1848 due to political intrigues at court. He moved to Shusha in the Russian occupied Karabakh region in 1853 and died there on 11 February 1884. He was buried in his mausoleum at the Barda cemetery in Shusha.〔Anne K. S. Lambton, ''Qajar Persia'', 1987, p. 16; Mehdi Bamdad: ''Sharh-e hal-e Rejal-e Iran'', I, 1999, p.197; Mohammad Ali Bahmani-Ghajar: ''Neveshtar-e Bahman Mirza'', Tehran, p. 3.〕 Bahman Mirza was an able governor, well-educated and a patron of literature and art, interested in geography, European history and modern natural history. He gave scholars, poets and artists a special place of honour. Therefore, authors and translators dedicated many works to him. The first Persian translation of ''One Thousand and One Nights'' from Arabic was translated by Abdol-Latif Tasooji by the order of Bahman Mirza.〔Nava’i, p. 490/491; Ann K. S. Lambton: “Kadjar”, in: ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', VI, 1978, p. 308; Kamran Rastegar: ''Literary Modernity between the Middle East and Europe.'' 2007, p. 67.〕 From 1831, the birth of Nasir al-Din Shah, to 1853, the birth of Muzaffar al-Din Shah, Bahman Mirza played a key role in the royal line of succession, when Great Britain and Russia began to intervene in Persia's domestic affairs. Both European powers saw Bahman Mirza as the powerful and strong senior prince of the imperial house, able to take the crown after his ill-fated brother. Thus, the right of succession of weak infant crown princes was legal according to the Qajar rule of succession but seemed sometimes not very realistic. But at the end Prince Bahman Mirza was forced into exile and the young heirs presumptive reached age of maturity and ascended the Peacock Throne.〔See: Lambton, Amanat, Nava'i.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bahman Mirza Qajar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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