"إضافات وتصحيحات لمسرد الشخصيات الهامة في بلاد فارس (المجلد IV)" [و‎‎١‎١‎٤] (٣١٢/٢٣٤)

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1923.
Pa-dina mountain, where the Pars and Kuhgilu and
Bakhtiari countries meet.
His mother was a daughter of Abdullah Khan Boir Ahmadi,
son of Muhammad Tahir Khan, chief of the undivided
tribe early in the 19th century. In 1908 attacked the
present Sardar Ihstisham Qashqai (q. v.) who had been
appointed Governor of Behbehan on his way to the
post, and in the fight killed his maternal cousin Karim
Khan, Bahadur-ud-Douleh, the ruling chief of the
Boir Ahmadi. A noted leader of a lawless band
which constantly raided Shiraz-Isfahan road between
1908-18. Submitted to G. 0, C. Southern Division,
1923.
Add :—
MULLA RAFAIL, ARFA-US-SULTANEH. Born about
1878. A jew of Kashan, where his mother still is.
Went to California 1902, and stayed till 1912, (in the-
course of it attempted to marry a Californian girl,
representing himself to be a Persian prince). Returned
to Persia and sent to Kerman as Head of the Opium
Branch of Indirect Taxation : got into difficulties wit’i
the Central Administration over defalcations when m
1916 Sir P. Sykes came to Kerman and took him into
S. P. R. Accounts Department with rank of ^ Sultan *
(captain) 1917 : transferred to Niriz. In October 1913‘
became Persian Aide-de-Camp to the Inspector-General
S. P. R. and remained so till disbandment October
1921. Tried to get various posts Governorships and
Finance appointments, and went to Tehran in 1922 to
obtain post in Persian Legation to U. S. A. Married
May 1923 daughter of Muazzum-ud-Douleh (q. v.)
Conceals his origin and passes himself off as a Muslim,,
though at one time he called himself a Bahai to mem
bers of that sect, but hardly orthodox and does not
even speak Persian correctly. Calls and signs himself
‘ Khan de Farrukh \ A great romancer, and regarded
as somewhat of a buffoon. .(Widely known in Shiraz,
by the soubriquet ‘ Shahar-i-Murg ’ because one day
not knowing the word for cock in Persian, he asked
what they called the animal, which was the husband
of the ‘ hen ? ). Appointed Governor of Kazerun June