Mirza Shafi Mazandarani

Portrait of Mirza Shafi Mazandarani.

Mirza Mohammad Shafi Bandpi'i Mazandarani (Persian: میرزا محمد شفیع بان نقطه دراینچ مازندرانی), better simply known as Mirza Shafi Mazandarani (میرزا شفیع مازندرانی), was an Iranian statesman of Mazandarani origin, who served as the grand vizier of the Qajar king (shah) Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797-1834) from 1801 to 1819.

He was born in 1744 at Babol, Mazandaran. He was the son of a certain Hajji Mirza Ahmad, and started his career as an bureaucrat at the court of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, who elevated him to the post of minister.

Sources

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