Mohammad Shah Qajar

Ali was forgiven by Mohammad, who had then become Shah. A supporter of Mohammad, Khosrow Khan Gorji, was awarded with the governorship of Isfahan, while Farahani was awarded the position of chancellorship of Persia by Shah at the time of his inauguration. He was later betrayed and executed by the order of the Shah in 1835, at the instigation of Hajj Mirza Aghasi, who would become the Ghaem Magham's successor and who greatly influenced Mohammad's policies. One of his wives, Malek Jahan Khanom, Mahd-e Olia, later became a large influence on his successor, who was their son.

He also tried to capture Herat twice. To try to defeat the British, he sent an officer to the court of Louis-Philippe of France. In 1839, two French military instructors arrived at Tabriz to aid him. However, both attempts to capture the city were unsuccessful[3][4] (Siege of Herat (1838) and Anglo-Persian War).

Towards the end of Mohammad Shah's short reign, British officials petitioned for a farman or decree against the slave trade. In 1846, the British Foreign Office sent Justin Sheil to Persia to negotiate with the Shah on the slave trade. At first the Shah refused to limit either slavery or the slave trade on the grounds that the Quran did not forbid it and he could not forbid something that the Quran deemed legal. Further the Shah asserted that banning the slave trade would reduce converts to Islam. However, in 1848, Mohammad Shah made a small concession and issued a farman banning the maritime trade of slaves.[5]

Mohammad was known to be somewhat sickly throughout his life, and he finally died at the age of 40 of gout in Mohammadieh Palace, now known as Bagh-e Ferdow.

Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar had 15 wives,[11] many of whose offspring did not survive infancy:

1. Mah Munawar Khanum, a lady from Tabriz.
2. Malika-i-Jahan Khanum, Mahd-i-’Aliya
3. Rahima Khanum
4. Khadija Begum
5. Shahzadi Khadija Sultan Khanum
6. Zubaida Khanum
7. Malik Khanum
8. Gulrukh Khanum Garmrudi
9. Bolur Khanum Zandia (or Bolor Khanum Zandieh or Zand)
10. Uqul Beyga
11. Zinat Khanum (or Zainab Khanum)
12. Mihral Khanum
13. Nizara Khanum
14. Narqis Khanum
15. Zubaida Khanum

During his reign, Mohammad had 13 sons and 10 daughters from 11 marriages (with some of whom he had no children).[11] Many of his children died in infancy.

Sons

• By Mah Monavar Khanum:

1. Toghroltakin Mirza (died in infancy)

• By Malek Jahan Khanum, Mahd-e Olia:

1. Sultan Malek Mirza (died in infancy)
2. Sultan Mahmoud Mirza (died in infancy)
3. Nasser-ed-Din Mirza (later Naser al-Din Shah Qajar)

• By Rahimeh Khanum, sister of Yahia Khan Chehrighi:

1. Zendejan Mirza (died in infancy)

• By Khadijeh Khanum, daughter of Emam Verdi Mirza, son of Fath Ali Shah:

1. Abbas Mirza "Molk-Ara"
2. Fathali Mirza
3. Ahmad Mirza

• By Malek Khanum:

1. Ebrahim Mirza (died in infancy)

• By Ogholbeigeh Khanum of the Salour Turkomans:

1. Abdosamad Mirza "Ezz-ed-Dowleh"

• By Zeinab Khanum of the Afshar of Urumieh:

1. Mohammad Taqi Mirza "Rokn-ed-Dowleh" (b.1840—d.1901)

Daughters

• By Malek Jahan Khanum, Mahd-e Olia:

1. Princess Keshvar (died in infancy)
2. Princess Malekzadeh "Ezzat ed-Dowleh" (born 1836)

• By Khadijeh Khanum, daughter of Emam Verdi Mirza, son of Fath Ali Shah:

1. Princess Tajmah
2. Princess Assiye
3. Princess Aziz ed-Dowleh

• By Golrokh Khanum Garmroudi:

1. Princess Afsar-ed Dowleh (died in infancy)

• By Bolour Khanum Zandieh:

1. Princess Ozra
2. Princess Effat ed-Dowleh

• By Ogholbeigeh Khanoum:

1. Princess Zahra "Ehteram-ed Dowleh"