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Mehdi Qoli Khan Hedayat (Persian: مهدیقلی هدایت; 1863 – September 21, 1955), also known as Mokhber-ol Saltaneh (Persian: مخبرالسلطنه), was Prime Minister of Iran and an author of several books on Iranian music, modern education, poetry, current affairs, and most notably a memoir covering his political tenure under ...
Jan 1, 2022 · Mehdi Qoli Hedayat, Mokhber al-Saltaneh, was born in 1863 into an aristocratic family in Tehran. He was the son of Ali Qoli Khan, Mokhber al-Dowleh, the pioneer in Iranian telegraphy, and the grandson of Reza Qoli Khan Hedayat, the famous historian and teacher of the Qajar period.
Jun 4, 2010 · (1987). Mehdi Qoli Hedayat: a conservative of the late Qajar Era. Iranian Studies: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 55-76.
- Ali Barzegar
- 1987
Mehdi Qoli Khan Hedayat was prime minister of Iran and an author of several books on Iranian music, modern education, poetry, current affairs, and most notably a memoir covering his political tenure undeer the last 6 kings of Iran.
(DOI: 10.1080/00210868708701691) Mehdi Qoli went to school at age seven. At fourteen he was sent, in the company of his brother, Morteza Qoli (Sane' al-Dowleh), to study in Germany . His stay lasted a little more than two months.
Later, reflecting on this decision, he said, "Alas, that if I had studied medicine I would be a free man and, now, I am bound, bound to a people.... " Thus, Mehdi Qoli's education in Europe was limited to learning the German language and sightseeing in Germany and Switzerland.2
It then turns to the travelogues of Mehdi Qoli Hedayat (1863— 1955), who visited China in 1904, and Mohammed 'Ali Eslami Nodoushan (1925—), who visited China in 1975, as examples of two phases of modern Iranian engagement
