Maryam Khanom Bani Isra'il (; 1770–1843}) was the royal consort of Shah Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–1797).SHERVIN FARRIDNEJAD, "The Jewish Ḥā feẓ : Classical New Persian Literature in the Judeo-Persian Garšū ni Literary Tradition," JRAS, Series 3, Cambridge University Press, 2021. She was then the 39th royal consort of Agha Mohammad's nephew and successor Shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834).
Life Maryam Khanom was from Māzandarān and was Jewish,"THE GHOSTS OF OUR MOTHERS: FROM ORAL TRADITION TO WRIT TEN WORDS—A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF JEWISH WOMEN WRITERS OF IRANIAN HERITAGE," NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues., 2009. of Jewish origin, and is sometimes referred to as "Maryam Khanom Bani Isra'il" ( "sons - or children - of Israel") to distinguish her from Maryam Khanom Gorji, another consort of Fath-Ali. She was reported to have "no rival in beauty".
She was the royal consort of Shah Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–1797).
When she was widowed the first time in 1797, khan (governor) Hossein Khan Sardar, the brother of the new shah wished to marry her. But Shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834; Agha Mohammad's nephew and successor) himself instead married her, which caused a conflict between them. 1888 edition online at She was the 39th royal consort of Shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.
She had 11 children, of whom six lived to adulthood.MARYAM KHANOM, Encyclopaeida Iranica, 2012. Among them were prince Mahmud Mirza Qajar (1799–1835; governor of Lorestān), Homāyun Mirzā (1801–56; governor of Nahāvand), Aḥmad-ʿAli Mirzā (born 1804; governor of Khorasan), Jahānšāh Mirzā (1809-35), Żiāʾ-al-Salṭana, Solṭān Begom (d. 1826), Solṭān Begom, and Mošir Salimi.
See also
List of Iranian women royalty
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