Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar

Biography:

Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar also spelled Muhammad and Hassan chief of the Qoyunlu branch of the Qajar tribe of Turkomans in the Caspian coastlands around Astarabad was the son of Fath Ali Khan and the father of Mohammad Khan Qajar who founded the Qajar dynasty of Iran. Mohammad Hasan Khan was driven from Astarabad in the early 1740s but after the death of Nader Shah in 1747 he appears to have joined Shahrukh Afshar and been appointed beglerbeg of Astarabad and leader of all the nomadic groups in the province by Soleyman II; after the latter was depose...