Akbar Khan Zand (Persian: اکبر خان زند, romanized: Akbar Khān Zand) was an Iranian prince from the Zand dynasty, who played a lively and vicious role...

The Zand dynasty (Persian: دودمان زندیان, romanized: Dudemāne Zandiyān) was an Iranian dynasty, founded by Karim Khan Zand (r. 1751–1779) that initially...

officer Akbar Khan Zand (died 1782), Iranian Prince Akbar Khazaei (born 1980), Iranian bodybuilding judge Akbar Khojini (1935–1995), Iranian boxer Akbar Khurasani...

Zaki Khan Zand (died June 6, 1779) was an Iranian military commander and contender for the throne. A member of the Zand dynasty of Iran, Zaki Khan, though...

Mohammad Khan Zand, one of Zaki Khan's sons, who had planned a revolt since 1782, when his youngest brother Akbar Khan was killed by Jafar Khan. Akbar Khan gathered...

the court of the Zand ruler Karim Khan (reigned 1750–79). After Karim Khan's death, he worked for the Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (reigned 1779–97)...

Shiraz from Ali Akbar. He made a move when Morteza Qoli Khan, an ally to Ali Akbar, in 1830 rebelled against the governor. Ali Akbar, for ensuring of...

Shiraz, Iran. It was built as part of a complex during the Zand dynasty. It is named after Karim Khan, and served as his living quarters. It is rectangular...

green and red. Flag of the Zand dynasty Another Flag of the Zand dynasty The "Ya Karim" flag, which was a pun on Karim Khan Zand's name, and Al-Karim (the...

Allameh Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā (Persian: علی‌اکبر دهخدا; 1879 – March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian literary writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He...

princess. Akbar succeeded to the throne under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped consolidate the Mughal Empire in India. Through warfare, Akbar was able...

Vizier and Kalantar of Fars in Zand government. His decision to betray Lotf Ali Khan Zand influenced the ending of the Zand dynasty and elevating Qajars...

Majumdar, Bengali politician Lotf Ali Khan (c. 1769–1794), last Shah of the Zand dynasty, of Persia Mahbub Ali Khan (1934–1984), Bangladeshi chief of naval...

memorial was constructed in the gardens in 1773, during the reign of Karim Khan Zand. Situated on the north bank of the seasonal Rudkhaneye Khoshk river in...

territories in Western Armenia and Mesopotamia. Finally, Karim Khan founded the Zand dynasty and became ruler of Iran by 1760. Erekle II and Teimuraz...

in Mazandaran, and held local power during the late Safavid, Afshari, and Zand dynasties. From the beginning of the Qajar period, the family entered politics...

Sharif Haj Ghorban Soleimani Ali Tajvidi Dariush Talai Hossein Tehrani Ali Zand Vakili Alinaghi Vaziri Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri Mortezâ Varzi Parviz Yahaghi...

I of Persia – ruler of the Safavid dynasty (1588–1629) Karim Khan – founder of the Zand dynasty Ali ibn Ridwan – Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer...

the reign of Akbar, revolts brow out in the Malandari Pass under Yousafzai leader Kalu Khan. The siege took more than two months. The Akbar than sent one...

Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (1797–1869), also known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. He was popularly known by the pen names Ghalib and Asad. His honorific...

Maqam Mountains near Allahu Akbar gorge. The Gate was first built during the reign of 'Adud ad-Dawla. By the time of the Zand dynasty, it had sustained...

16th century. Shiraz soon returned to prosperity under the rule of Karim Khan Zand, who made it his capital in 1762. Employing more than 12,000 workers,...

family. The region was then ruled by the Shirvan Khanate, a dependency of Zand Iran. At the age of five, Shirvani went to the city of Karbala along with...

But the kingdom of Sayed Morad Khan Zand lasted only for a short time and Lotf Ali Khan Zand, the son of Jafar Khan Zand rose against him and killed him...

seems to have continued uninterrupted. There are portraits of Karim Khan of the Zand dynasty of Iran and Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar that depict them smoking the...

 1748) and Shahrokh Shah (r. 1748–1750, 1750–1796), as well as the Zand ruler Karim Khan (r. 1751–1779) and one of his beglarbegis, each invested Molla Ali...

coup d'état, beginning on 14 January 1921 when 42-year-old soldier Reza Khan was promoted by British General Edmund Ironside to lead the British-run Persian...

his service under the Qajars, Hajji Ebrahim Shirazi had served under the Zand dynasty (1751–1794), in whose court Mirza Abolhassan had received his early...

Shiraz soon returned to prosperity under the enlightened rule of Karim Khan Zand who made it his capital in 1762. Employing more than 12,000 workers he...

different literary genres are represented in Pahlavi literature. Zand texts The zand corpus include exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and...