اسناد تاریخی خاندان غفاری ( جلد چهارم ): اوراق بازمانده از محمدابراهیم غفاری (معاون الدوله) فارسی 1393

“Historical Documents of the Ghaffari Family: The Surviving Papers of Mohammad Ebrahim Ghaffari (Mo‘āven al-Dowleh)” is a collection of letters, documents, and historical records preserved from Mohammad Ebrahim Khan Ghaffari, titled Mo‘āven al-Dowleh (1276–1337 AH), providing a documented portrait of Iran’s administrative structure, political relations, and social conditions during the late Qajar period.

The Ghaffari family, particularly from the era of Farrokh Khan Amin al-Dowleh onward, was one of Iran’s prominent and influential families, with its members holding important positions within the Qajar administrative and royal institutions. The documents in this collection date from 1309 to 1329 AH and cover the reigns of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, as well as the activities of the Sepahsalar government.

The letters and documents in the book are organized and classified according to the name of the author, subject matter, and date of writing. Among these records, the documents related to the Ministry of Commerce, the Kārgozāri of Mohammerah (Khorramshahr), Mozaffar al-Din Shah’s account of his journey to Paris written in his own hand, and a report on the social and political conditions of Kurdistan and its tribes are of particular historical significance.

This collection is a valuable source for research on the administrative system of the Qajar era, court relations, structures of power, economic conditions, and the social life of the Iranian people on the eve of the Constitutional Revolution. Through these first-hand documents, it provides a close view of Iran’s political and cultural atmosphere during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries AH.