almost 8 years ago, Bahram Mohtadi contributed a biography for
1. Having only mentioned this lady's male offspring, while using the term فرزند (meaning 'offspring' or 'children' etc.) is inappropriate. She also had female offspring to whom I believe she even refers in her Hajj writings.
One daughter I am aware of (from her first marriage to Ghavam Dowleh Ashtiani, an ancestor of mine who had no other wives) was married to Mirza Hossein Vazir Daftar (Mirza Hedayat Vazir Daftar's eldest son and heir, another ancestor of mine).
The mother of Mirza Hossein's sons (including Mahmoud Daftari / Einelmamalek / عین الممالک, my maternal great grandfather), this daughter was apparently even more authoritarian and versed in religious values than her mother Esmatsaltaneh and is only referred to in family anecdotes as Haj khanoum or Homa Khanoum or Haj Homa khanoum because of her highly vocal aversion to the usual Ghajar 'handles' (titles) and aristocratic trappings shunned by Islam. An attitude which has other well known examples in high born Ghajar women . . .
2. I do wish Iranian scholars who cannot possibly be unaware that the correct phonetic spelling for an ancient Farsi term such as مهر cannot possibly be "Mihr" and can only be Mehr, would stop allowing themselves to be brow beaten into aping perfectly distinguished non Iranian scholars who may simply not be as physically or phonetically well versed in the pronunciation of Farsi words.
I certainly never came across a single such scholar (of, say, anglo saxon descent), who could pronounce Farsi terms accurately enough to pass himself or herself off as "Persian'!
It should therefore not require some great epiphany to grasp how even the most benign interpretation of this issue cannot mitigate how ridiculous the status quo is, let alone a foray into history where we find some half witted British Ambassador telling the Iranian Prime Minister and Monarch how they ought to use the Farsi word for king پادشاه to address Queen Victoria!
One daughter I am aware of (from her first marriage to Ghavam Dowleh Ashtiani, an ancestor of mine who had no other wives) was married to Mirza Hossein Vazir Daftar (Mirza Hedayat Vazir Daftar's eldest son and heir, another ancestor of mine).
The mother of Mirza Hossein's sons (including Mahmoud Daftari / Einelmamalek / عین الممالک, my maternal great grandfather), this daughter was apparently even more authoritarian and versed in religious values than her mother Esmatsaltaneh and is only referred to in family anecdotes as Haj khanoum or Homa Khanoum or Haj Homa khanoum because of her highly vocal aversion to the usual Ghajar 'handles' (titles) and aristocratic trappings shunned by Islam. An attitude which has other well known examples in high born Ghajar women . . .
2. I do wish Iranian scholars who cannot possibly be unaware that the correct phonetic spelling for an ancient Farsi term such as مهر cannot possibly be "Mihr" and can only be Mehr, would stop allowing themselves to be brow beaten into aping perfectly distinguished non Iranian scholars who may simply not be as physically or phonetically well versed in the pronunciation of Farsi words.
I certainly never came across a single such scholar (of, say, anglo saxon descent), who could pronounce Farsi terms accurately enough to pass himself or herself off as "Persian'!
It should therefore not require some great epiphany to grasp how even the most benign interpretation of this issue cannot mitigate how ridiculous the status quo is, let alone a foray into history where we find some half witted British Ambassador telling the Iranian Prime Minister and Monarch how they ought to use the Farsi word for king پادشاه to address Queen Victoria!
Navid Jamali commented over 6 years ago
Ghavan-od-Dowleh had two wives, I've seen his family tree and Mehr Mah Khanoum was his second wife.
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