Naser al-Din Shah Qajar

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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Shahanshah of Iran Zell'ollah (Shadow of God [on earth])[1] Qebleh-ye 'ālam (Pivot of the Universe)[1] Islampanah (Refuge of Islam)[1]
Naser al-Din Shah, photographed by Nadar in 1889
Shah of Iran
Reign	5 September 1848 – 1 May 1896
Predecessor	Mohammad Shah Qajar
Successor	Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
Regent	Malek Jahan Khanom
Premiers	See list Amir Kabir Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri Mirza Hosein Khan Mirza Yusuf Ashtiani Mirza Ali Asghar Khan
Born	(1831-07-17)17 July 1831[2] Kahnamu, Persia
Died	1 May 1896(1896-05-01) (aged 64) Tehran, Persia
Burial	Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine
Spouse	85 women, among them: Galin Khanom Taj al-Dawlah Shokouh al-Saltaneh Jeyran ​ ​ (m. 1851; died 1860)​ Anis al-Dawla Amina Aqdas Khazen al-Dawlah Munir al-Saltaneh Fatemeh Sultan Baghbanbashi
Issue	See below
Names Naser al-Din Shah ناصرالدین‌شاه
Dynasty	Qajar
Father	Mohammad Shah Qajar
Mother	Malek Jahan Khanom
Religion	Shia Islam
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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar^[3] (Persian: ناصرالدین‌شاه قاجار, romanized: Nāser-ad-Din Ŝāh-e Qājār; 17 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek Jahan Khanom and the third longest reigning monarch in Iranian history after Shapur II of the Sassanid dynasty and Tahmasp I of the Safavid dynasty. Nasser al-Din Shah had sovereign power for close to 51 years.

He was the first modern Persian monarch who formally visited Europe and wrote of his travels in his memoirs. A modernist, he allowed the establishment of newspapers in the country and made use of modern forms of technology such as telegraphs, photography and also planned concessions for railways and irrigation works. Despite his modernizing reforms on education, his tax reforms were abused by people in power, and the government was viewed as corrupt and unable to protect commoners from abuse by the upper class which led to increasing antigovernmental sentiments. He ended up being assassinated when visiting a shrine.