Qajar dynasty

Qajar
Qajar
	Coat of arms of Qajar Iran (1907–1925)
	Flag of Qajar Iran (1906–1925)
Parent house	Qajar tribe
Country	Qajar Iran
Founded	1789
Founder	Agha Mohammad Shah
Final ruler	Ahmad Shah
Titles	Shah of Iran
Deposition	1925
Cadet branches	Bahmani family

The Qajar dynasty (Persian: دودمان قاجار, romanized: Dudemâne Ǧâjâr; 1789–1925)^[a] was an Iranian^[1] dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan (r. 1789–1797) of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman^[2] Qajar tribe.

The dynasty's effective rule in Iran ended in 1925 when Iran's Majlis, convening as a constituent assembly on 12 December 1925, declared Reza Shah, a former brigadier-general of the Persian Cossack Brigade, as the new shah of the Imperial State of Persia.

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^ Amanat 1997, p. 2: "In the 126 years between the fall of the Safavid state in 1722 and the accession of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Qajars evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings of a Perso-Islamic monarchy."
^ Sümer 1978.

[2] Amanat 1997, p. 2: "In the 126 years between the fall of the Safavid state in 1722 and the accession of Nasir al-Din Shah, the Qajars evolved from a shepherd-warrior tribe with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings of a Perso-Islamic monarchy."

[FOOTNOTESümer1978-3] Sümer 1978.

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