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The Artist and the Shah

The Artist and the Shah

Hardcover

Historical FiguresIran HistoryMiddle Eastern Art

ISBN10: 1949445380
ISBN13: 9781949445381
Publisher: Mage Publ Inc
Published: Feb 22 2022
Pages: 704
Weight: 2.76
Height: 1.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English


To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia's Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan Mo ayyer al-Mamalek (1876-1966) brought matchless gifts. On his mother's side, he was the grandson of Naser al-Din Shah, ruler of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896; on his father's side, he was the descendant of a family of assayers and masters of the royal mint with roots in the Safavid era (1501-1736). He was also a painter and writer with a keen eye for atmosphere and detail. Throughout his long life, he kept journals of the rarefied and sometimes turbulent world in which he moved. Some of those records were incorporated by him into autobiography or descriptions of his grandfather's court-its modes of governance, festivals, royal hunts, palaces and gardens, life in the harem, and much more.

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