page_title: Zarrinnaal
section_title: Agha Mirza Zaman Khan Kordestani Lashkar-nevis (1842–1906)
hierarchical_section_title: Zarrinnaal / Tribal heads and their history / Agha Mirza Zaman Khan Kordestani Lashkar-nevis (1842–1906)
caption_attribution_description: Kurdî: Mîrza Zeman Xanê KurdistanîEnglish: Agha Mirza Zaman Khan KordestaniDeutsch: Agha Mirza Zaman Khan Kordestani
context_page_description: Zarrinnaal or Zarrin Naal is the name of a dynasty of Persian-Kurdish tribal chiefs and state officials belonging to the Zarrin Kafsh tribe and originated from Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province of Iran. Their heads with the title of Beyg, Beyk or Beg were the Aghas of Senneh and ruled their fiefdom during the time of four hundred years when the Safavids, Afsharids and finally Qajar dynasty reigned in Iran.
context_section_description: Oghli Beyg's son Agha Mirza Zaman Khan Kordestani Lashkar-nevis was muster-master (lashkar-nevis) of the Persian troops. 
  Mirza Zaman Khan was born in Sanandaj by Noor Jahan Khanom at the Khosrau-Abad residential palace in 1842 and died at Tehran 1906. Himself from a family of Ardalan court grandees, responsible for army supplies, he got an extensive education in Arabic, literature, calligraphy and arithmetic. 
  On July 1, 1859 young Master Zaman joined the Shah's camp when Nasser al-Din Shah visited with his entourage the Kurdistan Province on a royal tour and stayed in its capital town of Sanandaj for three days. He entered the royal tent, paid obedience to the Shah and offered his service. Because the Vali of Kurdistan was not able to satisfied the wishes of the Shah's retinue and several of them were getting angry, the court departed from Kurdestan taking young Zaman with it. Via Tabriz and Maragheh he then moved to Tehran and reached the capital on October 19, 1859. In 1867 Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar finally terminated the Ardalan rule in Kurdistan by deposing the last Vali and removing him with his own uncle Prince Farhad Mirza Mo'tamad ad-Dowleh as governor of the Kurdistan Province. Zaman settled then permanently in Tehran, moving from the Ark district to that of Oudlajan in the city's north-eastern part where the nobility had its residences and founded in 1868 a family. 
  Some samples of his handwriting convinced his superiors at court to give him an employment at the imperial court offices and so he became a bureaucrat in the governmental administration. His career started there as a clerk (Persian Mirza) and he was in charge of fiscal duties of the government, administration and military, responsible for the Kurdistan Province in special.
  In 1872 with the improvements of Prime Minister Mirza Hossein Khan Moshir ad-Dowleh Mirza Zaman worked for the Ministry of War, and finally got the post of lashkar-nevis (lit. "army scribe", i.e. muster-master), who was chief paymaster of the troops and head of military administration. Until 1904 he worked in this office which became the hereditary post in his family for three generations and documented all costs and vouchers of payment of the entire soldiery of 200,000 men of that time. Mirza Zaman was honorary called Agha (lit. "Sir") by Nasser al-Din Shah and the former tribal title of Beyg, used in the family’s past, changed in that of a superior Khan ("magnate"), according to common Persian customs of calling landowners of old provenance with this not only hereditary but also adoptive sobriquet. He then also became vizier of Kurdistan and finally governor of that Persian province. 
   Furthermore, Agha Mirza Zaman Khan became military adviser to the Shah, and wrote books about military history and astronomy, also.
  In 1867 Agha Mirza Zaman Khan Kordestani married Pari Soltan Khanom Pir-Bastami Zarrin Khanom ("Golden Lady"), daughter of Mohammad Hossein Khan Bastami (Moayyeri) Mir Panj and by Effat ad-Dowleh Khanom Qajar, and hence granddaughter in paternal line of Doust Ali Khan Moayyer al-Mamalek and in maternal line related to the Qajar dynasty. They had three children: 
  Agha Mirza Ali Akbar Khan Zarrinnaal Lashkar-nevis Nasr-e Lashkar, the father of the future Zarrinnaal family
  Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Zarrinkafsh, the father of the future Zarrinkafsh family
  Banou Fatemeh Soltan Khanom Afshartous, the mother of the Afshartous family and General Mahmoud Afshartous in particular
caption: Agha Mirza Zaman Khan Kordestani, 1888
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