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Shah of Iran grandson of Fath Ali Shah Prince Taymur Mirza

d. 1874

A Qajar prince with a strong taste for the hunt, he is remembered today for a Persian treatise on falconry that survived long after the courtly world around him changed.

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The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri : A Persian treatise on falconry

The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri : A Persian treatise on falconry

by Shah of Iran grandson of Fath Ali Shah Prince Taymur Mirza

About the author

Taymur Mirza was a prince of Iran’s Qajar dynasty and a grandson of Fath Ali Shah. The clearest source I found describes him as the author of The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāṣirī, a 19th-century Persian work on falconry, and gives his death as 1874 or 1875.

That surviving book is the main reason he is still known. It presents him as a member of the royal family with deep knowledge of hunting with birds of prey, and it preserves a slice of elite life in Qajar Iran through a practical, specialized subject rather than through politics or war.

Some biographical details beyond that are hard to confirm cleanly from reliable sources available online, so it is safest to keep the picture simple: a Qajar prince, connected to the court of Fath Ali Shah, whose name endures because of an unusual and historically valuable book on falconry.