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MIRZA IBRAHIM KHAN, ‘ MUNSHI A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. -BASHI Born
1884. Second son of Mirza Ismail Buringuni ‘ Diraz ’
(from the Kuhmerreh Shikfat district of Ears) who
was a humble munshi A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. of Mirza Abdullah the chief
scribe of the late Qawam-ul-Mulk III, and died in the
cholera epidemic 1905. The son entered service of
Nasr-ud-Douleh second son of Qawam-ul-Mulk III, and
after Nasr-ud-Douleh’s murder in 1911 transferred to
Secretariat of Qawam-ul-Mulk IV, and on latter’s death
1916 to Qawam-ul-Mulk V, whose Chief Secretary he
is and under whom he has obtained wealth. Brothers
Masih-ul-Mamalik (q. v.) and Hismatullah Khan. A
notable Bahai of Shiraz.
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MIRZA IBRAHIM KHAN, QAWAM-UL-MULK V. Born
about 1888. Elder and only surviving son of late
Habibullah Khan, Qawam-ul-Mulk IV and of late
Laqa-ud-Douleh a daughter of Haji Nasr-ullah Khan,
Ilkhani The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran. of the Qashqai. As a boy chiefly brought up
by his grandfather, the late Muhammad Riza Khan,
Qawam-ul-Mulk III taken by him to Karbala. First
title £ Intizam-ul-Mamalik.’ His father and uncle in
1907 proposed to send him to school in England but
this was not done. Married in 1911 to Fakhr-us-
Sultaneh eldest daughter of his uncle Nasr-ud-Douleh,
who had been killed the same year. Then took title
of Nasr-ud-Douleh which he used till his father s death.
During the period of his father’s sanctuary in the
British Consulate, Shiraz, in 1911 was with his mother
engaged in the Qawami quarter of the town fighting
Nizam-us-Sultaneh, the Governor-General and Soulat-
ud-Douleh who had conspired for his uncle s and
father’s death : and on the Khamseh tribes rallying to
support of his family succeeded in driving Nizam-us-
Sultaneh and Soulat-ud-Douleh out of Shiraz. Placed
in charge of the Khamseh tribes by his father m he
autumn 1911 to 1912, when he killed Reza Quh
Khan Kutti, a powerful but' truculent Chief of e
Khamseh. In 1913 he became a member of the newly-
found ‘ Democrat ’ Committee of Shiraz, and on baa
terms with his father who disapproved of his P 01
and conduct. As a young man, headstrong yet devoted