Mirza Shafi Mazandarani

Portrait of Mirza Shafi Mazandarani.

Mirza Mohammad Shafi Bandpi'i Mazandarani (Persian: میرزا محمد شفیع بان نقطه دراینچ مازندرانی‎), better simply known as Mirza Shafi Mazandarani (میرزا شفیع مازندرانی), was an Iranian statesman of Mazandarani origin, who served as the grand vizier of the Qajar king (shah) Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797-1834) from 1801 to 1819.

He born in 1744 at Babol, Mazandaran. He was the son of a certain Hajji Mirza Ahmad, and started his career as an bureaucrat at the court of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, who elevated him to the post of minister.

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• Amanat, Abbas (1997). "EBRĀHĪM KALĀNTAR ŠĪRĀZĪ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 1. pp. 66–71.
• Atabaki, T. (1993). "Mīrzā S̲h̲afīʿ Māzandarānī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume VII: Mif–Naz. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09419-2.