Person

Jafar Khan Zand

d. 1789 · 18th century

Jafar Khan Zand was ruler of the Zand state from 1785 to 1789, a son of Sadeq Khan and the father of Lotf Ali Khan. Ruling from Shiraz during the civil wars that followed Karim Khan's death, he lost Isfahan and much of the north to the rising Qajar leader Agha Mohammad Khan. He was poisoned in 1789 in a palace conspiracy.

Jafar Khan Zand
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