Zubayda (Jahan)

Jahan Qajar, Zubayda Khanum, (b. 1886), daughter of Fath’ali Shah. She was a belletrist, mystic, and poetess with the nom de plume Jahan and the titles Janbaji and Firishtih. The twenty-seventh child of Fath’alishah by Mahafarin Khanum Shirazi. Jahan Qajar married ‘Alinaqi Khan Qaraguzlu, Nusrat al-Mulk. After her marriage, she settled in Hamadan to his last days for a period of 60 years. She was beneficent and mystic and a disciple of Hajj Mirza ‘Alinaqi Hamadani. She led a simple life and was very generous. She made several pilgrimages to the Holy Shrines. She composed elegant poetry, though her Divan is unpublished. It includes qasidas on divine unity and eulogy of the Prophet and the Ahl al-Bayt; lyrical and mystical poetry following the models of the poets belonging to the Literary Return era; three moral and mystical treatises in fluent, though elegant prose.

Asar-afarinan (2/ 218); Hadiqat al-Shu’ara’ (3/ 2140-2143).