Abdollah Khan Amin ol-Dowleh

Abdollah Khan, also known by his honorific Amin ol-Dowleh ("trustee of the realm"; 1779–1847), was the chief revenue accountant or minister of finance (mostowfi ol-mamalek) and later prime minister under the Qajar shah Fath-Ali Shah (r.1797–1834). He was born as the oldest son of the former prime minister Hajji Mohammad Hossein Isfahani (died 1823). It appears his mother was a daughter of a petty chief from the Bakhtiari clan. He was born in Isfahan, of which he also served as governor during his career.[1][2]

References

  1. Werner, Christoph (2008). "Amīn al-Dawla". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
  2. Amanat, A. (1985). "AMĪN-AL-DAWLA, ʿABDALLĀH KHAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume I/9: Alp Arslan–ʿAbd-al-Hamīd. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 939–941. ISBN 978-0-71009-098-0.


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