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Shah of Iran grandson of Fath Ali Shah Prince Taymur Mirza
d. 1874
A Qajar prince with a deep love of the hunt, he is remembered for turning courtly knowledge into one of the best-known Persian works on falconry. His surviving story offers a glimpse of royal life, fieldcraft, and literary culture in 19th-century Iran.
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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
Born in Shiraz in 1810, Taymur Mirza was a member of the Qajar dynasty and a grandson of Fath Ali Shah of Iran. Sources consulted during this search identify him as the fifth son of Husayn Ali Farmanfarma, and describe him as part of the royal world shaped by the Qajar court.
He is best known as the author of Bāz-nāma-yi Nāṣirī, a Persian treatise on falconry. Library and museum records describe him as a hunting-bird specialist who later served at the court of Nasir al-Din Shah, where his expertise in the hunt gave his writing a practical, lived authority.
Accounts found here say he spent years in Baghdad, returned to court in 1864, published his falconry work in 1868, and died in 1874, with some catalogs giving 1874 or 1875. Those details make him a small but fascinating figure in Iranian history: a prince whose legacy survives not through rule or war, but through a richly specific book.