Abolfath Mirza Qajar
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Abolfath Mirza Qajar (Persian: ابوالفتح میرزا قاجار; 1881–1961), also known as Salar–al Daulah (Persian: سالارالدوله) was a leader of Anti constitutionalist revolt and the third son of Mozaffar al-Din Shah.[1]
Tehran, Sublime State of Iran
Alexandria, Egypt
| Abolfath Mirza Qajar | |
|---|---|
 Salar-al-Daulah in 1907 | |
| Born | 1881 Tehran, Sublime State of Iran |
| Died | 1959 (aged 79) Alexandria, Egypt |
| Dynasty | Qajar |
| Father | Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar |
| Religion | Twelver Shia Islam |
After the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, he left from Iran and, in support of his brother Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, launched a rebellion in Western Iran. He captured Sanandaj and called upon the National Consultative Assembly to cooperate with the deposed shah. Following Mohammad Ali Shah’s deposition, he met his brother in Vienna and then re-entered Iran via the Ottoman Empire in an effort to restore him to the throne. With a force drawn from the Kalhor, Jaff, Sanjâbi, and Lurs, he succeeded in capturing Kermanshah and Hamadan. In the first engagement against the constitutionalists, commanded by Amir Mofakham Bakhtiari and fought near Malayer, Salar al-Dowleh emerged victorious. He then advanced toward Tehran with a force of approximately 30,000 troops. In the second battle, fought near Saveh between the constitutionalist forces under Amir Mofakham Bakhtiari and Salar al-Dowleh’s army, he suffered a decisive defeat. Although he managed to escape the battlefield, the National Consultative Assembly placed a bounty of 25,000 tomans on his capture or execution, prompting him to flee once again to the Ottoman Empire.[2] A few years later, he once again went to Kurdistan, gathered a force, and marched on Hamadan, but was defeated by the forces of Yeprem Khan and fled Iran once more. Later, through Russian mediation, the governorship of Gilan was entrusted to him; however, he rebelled again, and the Cossacks of the Gorgan garrison supported him. Nevertheless, he was defeated once more and this time was expelled from Iran. During World War I, he returned to Iran yet again but achieved nothing, and ultimately sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire before settling in Egypt, where he died in Alexandria at June 1959.
