In the post-revolutionary period, when I was suffering from wandering, unemployment, loneliness, and worrying about my stormy life, I decided to prepare a tree pedigree from my paternal family side. After some time living abroad, I received a pedigree from my cousin, the late Sirus Gharaje Daghi, who had found time to be free like me and he had encountered the names of Mohammad Sadegh and Haj Mohammad Jafar, residents of Istanbul and Haji Ali Asghar Gharaje Daghi due to his access to the family documents that were in the possession of Sirus father after the death of my father and my other uncle and he could not find their relations and in a letter he wrote to me with a copy of the decree of Mohammad Shah Qajar issued under the name of Guard Amir, Amir Mansour, and Mulla Ahmad Moallem Sultan Morad Mirza has been appointed to oversee the affairs of Fereydoun Mirza in that decree and the letter of Fereydoun Mirza in this case as well as the letter of Haji Mirza Aghasi (Mohammad Shah chancellor, who was exiled to Baghdad) to Haji Mulla Ahmad as follows:
Darling Excellency, royal friend, Haji Mulla Ahmad Gharaje Daghi (the originals of all the three letters exist in the family) and sent me the list of the family books and fortunately, obtaining the treatise of Haji Mohammad Ali Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi, which was published by Astaneh Hazrat Masoumeh Digital Library that was received by me thanks to Dr. Pejman Azarmina (granddaughter of my father’s cousin and granddaughter of my mother’s cousin) in which a treatise on author of this treatise’ clan is explained by Dr. Aghighi Bakhshayeshi, one of the scholars in religion field (Ayatollah Haji Mohammad Ali, a son of Haj Mirza Ahmad Avansara Gharaje Daghi, who was among the great clans of Tabriz and most of them were Mojtaheds, and so they was known as Mojtaheds), opened a new window and also got to know the late Dariush Gharaje Daghi, who was among the descendants of Haji Mohammad Jafar Gharaje Daghi living in Istanbul, by chance in Los Angeles. By obtaining the book of contemporary scientists of Tabriz lithography in part gh, which was sent to me by his brother, Fereydoun Gharaje Daghi (in this episode, the family begins with Mulla Tarvardi Gharaje Daghi, whose son Haji Mohammad immigrated to Tabriz along with his four children, and one of his children immigrated to the Caucasus) As well as using the new knowledge by Google in the Wiki Shiite named Ahmad Mojtahed as follows: Ahmad Mojtahed, a son of Lotf Ali ben Mohammad Sadegh, whose ancestors are from Moghan from the Moghanloo clan of the Shahsavan tribes, and written by Adib al-Mamalik (Defender of Pride, p. 148), sorted out the people’s problems in Dar al-Saltanat of Tabriz for 81 years. According to the book of Eloquents Culture, written by Khayampour, p.28, Lotf Ali’s father i.e. Mostofi Azadkhan was among the Zandieh government’s agents (the mentioned documents are attached) and the names of his four children are Lotf Ali- Mohammad Jafar- Mohammad Bagher – Javad and Mohammad Ali, which are mostly investigated by me in the book of Dar al-Saltaneh 127, 128, 198, and 199, especially pages 210 to 213 of Tabriz, in some pages of which are mentioned in detail. In addition, from the Center for Islamic Studies about Haj Mirza Javad Mojtahed Tabrizi, the leader of the tobacco movement in Azerbaijan, and his mediation for Sattar Khan from prison (documents are attached) shows that this clan has done a lot of services in the past.
I was also honored to contact Dr. Hassan Javadi, whose grandfather was Haji Mirza Javad Mojtahed (one of the sons of Haji Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed), in the foreign land and after exchanging information with each other, he also sent me a pedigree written by the late Yousef Najmabadi in 34 pages review of four children of Haji Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed (the late Najmabadi was looking for the Mojtahedi family and did not know of their fifth child named Haji Mohammad Ali Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi), which was very valuable and shows that this family (considering that the last name was not common at that time and people were mostly known by their father’s name and place of residence) were known as Mojtahed in Tabriz and Gharaje Daghi, Gharaje Daghi Tabrizi, Tabrizi, Mojtahedi, Ansar Gharaje Daghi, Gharaje Daghi Ansari were mentioned in most documents and some selected Gharaje Daghi, Ansar Gharaje Daghi, Gharaje Daghi Ansari, Pishva, Arani, Javadi Tabrizi, Imam Jume, Emamipour, Ismaeel Imam Juma, Mokhtare, Gharvi, Abdi Fazli, Saviz, Emami Tabrizi and Masoud for themselves after the emergence of the surname.
I need to explain that the surname of the husbands of the family daughters are not mentioned above due to their multiplicity, but they are included in the pedigree. It’s my duty to hereby thank this endless helps of the late Dr. Sirus Gharaje Daghi, who sent a copy of decrees and documents existing in the family, the list of inherited books of the family, the late Dariush Gharaje Daghi and Dr. Fereydoun Gharaje Daghi, who sent the pedigree, the documents start from Mulla Tarvardi Gharaje Daghi as well as the children names of Haj Mirza Jafar Gharaje Daghi, who had migrated to Islamabad also provided with me, and Dr. Pejman Azarmina, who provided the treatise of Haji Mirza Mohammad Ali Mojtahed, which is the most important evidence I could cite, with me as well as the late Yousef Najmabadi, who compiled the pedigree of the four children of Haji Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed, which was received by me thanks to Dr. Hassan Javadi. I now dedicate the relatives of this great identified family to the descendants of the clan.
On the 19th of Shahrivar 1398, equal to September 10, 2019
Written by Masoud ben Ali (Haji Khan) Gharaje Daghi ben Yousef Gharaje Daghi (Moshir Hazrat) ben Haji Mohammad Ali Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi ben Haji Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi Tabrizi ben Haji Lotf Ali Gharaje Daghi ben Mohammad Sadegh Gharaje Daghi ben Haji Mohammad Gharaje Daghi ben Mulla tarverdi Gharaje Daghi
My mother’s paternal pedigree
Haji Rabi Mazandarani, a famous businessman in Tabriz
About 1840, Taghizadeh’s memoirs that has been supported by Haj Rabi in Tehran on1865
Haj Rabi children:
Mohsen Hashemi (Mu’azzam al-Mulk, secretary of Shoa al-Saltaneh in Shiraz)- The first child of Haji Rabi
Children of Mohsen Hashemi: 1- Mu’azzam al-Muluk Fatemeh Sultan Hakimi and her children, engineer Nasser Mansouri – Mahin (wife of Abdolhossein Daneshpour) – Javad Mansouri (Children of Mohsen Hashemi that selected the Hashemi surname by his teacher in Dar al-Fonun School with consent of their father according to the memoirs of Abdolhamid Hakimi, at the time when the surnames were not common)
2- Abdolhamid Hakimi. His children: Hashem Hakimi- Farzaneh (Behzadi wife) -Parvaneh (Sharif wife) 3- Fattaneh, her husband (Brigadier General Hafezi) from the first wife – 4- Majid and Maryam from his second wife
3- Majid Hakimi Children: Iraj Hakimi – Simin (Bagher Diba wife) – Shahin (Parviz Nikopour’s wife) – Touraj Hakimi
4- Saeed Hakimi Children: Mehrdad Hakimi – Mah Lagha (Mani Hakimi’s wife)
5 – Esmat (wife of Haji Khan Gharaje Daghi) children 1- Masood 2- Mah Monir (wife of Lotfollah Nouhi) – Jamshid
Second child – Haji Rabi: Mother of Ehtesham Sultan (Sadeghi’s wife)
Children: 1- Ehtesham Sultan (Head of Sheriff in Reza Shah era, according to the writing in the memoirs of Abdul Hamid Hakimi) 2- Abdul Hossein Moghtadar (Deputy Minister of Finance)
Children of Ehtesham Sultan: 1- Ms. Nosrat (wife of major-general Sorena) 2- Maryam (wife of Dr. Kia) 3- Naser Sadeghi 4- Javad Sadeghi (I have no information about the children of Abdul Hossein Moghtadar).
Third child of Haji Rabi: Naghi Rabieian (wife of Khadijeh Gharaje Daghi)
Children: 1- Behrooz 2-Younes-3 Yaghoub-4 Minoo (wife of Brigadier General Azarmina) 5- Ayub 6- Mohammad Reza
The fourth child of Haji Rabi – Taqi Rabi’ian had no children.
fifth child (unfortunately I forgot his/her name)
Documents used to prepare the pedigree of Gharaje Daghi clan
First: Contemporary scientists’ book, Tabriz lithography in part gh called Mulla Tarverdi Gharaje Daghi, Quran reciter, Imamieh treatise,” and history manciple and his child Haj Mohammad Gharaje Daghi and Fi ma fih treatise that migrated to Tabriz from Gharaje Daghi along with his four children.
Second: According to the above book, one of Haji Mohammad’s grandchildren named Nusrat Gharaje Daghi migrated to Aran Caucasus –
Third: The writing of the same book named Haji Mohammad Jafar Gharaje Daghi (Haj Ahmad Mojtahed brother) settled in Istanbul
Fourth: Haji Ahmad Mojtahed: Mirza Ahmad ben Lotf Ali Khan ben Mohammad Sadegh Azarbayjani Moghani Tabrizi from Moghanloo Shahsavan Tribe, fourth generation of Mulla Tarvardi (fifth page of Reyhanat al-Adab, page 176, extracted from page 618, clause 302, book explanation on history and geography of Dar al-Saltaneh of Tabriz, with a detailed description of pages 210, 211, and 212 of the same book)
Fifth: Mohammad Shah Qajar’s decree about Mulla Ahmad (dated 1252) to this text:
We sent there His Excellency Mulla Ahmad Moallem, the darling of Sultan Morad Mirza to take care of the darling wife.
Sixth: The instruction of Fereydoun Mirza, Mohammad Shah Qajar brother, to Mulla Ahmad regarding the administration of his family’s real estate.
Seventh: A letter of Mirza Aghasi, chancellor of Mohammad Shah, who was exiled to Karbala and wrote a letter to Mirza Ahmad Gharaje Daghi from Karbala as follows:
Dear Excellency, Haji Mirza Ahmad Gharaje Daghi
Eighth: Extracted from Tabriz Wiki Fiqh by Google as follows: Mohammad Mirza’s guardianship did not last long because Fath Ali Shah died on September 23, 1834. When this piece of news was conveyed to Tabriz, the clerics of Tabriz, such as Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed and Mirza Ali Asghar Sheikh al-Islam, and some other clerics went before the Crown Prince and invited him to proclaim the monarchy while offering their condolences.
Ninth: Extract of Shiite wiki named Ahmad Mojtahed (especially in the case of Haji Mirza Ahmad’s father and grandfather) by Google
Tenth: About the emblem of the doorman named Haji Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi extracted from Astan Quds Razavi Digital Library
Eleventh: History and geography of the Dar-al-Saltanat of Tabriz, authored by Nader Mirza, pages 33, 35, 210 to 212 about Haji Ahmad Mojtahed and Haji Ahmad Mojtahed and in other pages about his children, especially about Haji Lotfali. Haji Mohammad Bagher and Haji Mirza Javad as well as in page 199 about Haji Mohammad Ali Gharaje Daghi
Twelfth: Nasereddin Shah’s decree on delegating four pieces of properties to Haji Mohammad Ali Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi
Thirteenth: The treatise of Haji Mohammad Ali Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi, published by the Digital Library of Hazrat Masoumeh Astan in Qom, on the life of the book author, according to Dr. Aghighi Bakhshayeshi, one of the respected scholars of the seminary, is as follows: He is Ayatollah Haj Mohammad Ali Mojtahed, a son of Haj Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi among the Mojtaheds and promoters of the Azerbaijan Region and of the famous clan of Tabriz from the Azerbaijan Region, a clan of Sheikh Mohammad Ali Gharaje Daghi from the famous clan of Tabriz that were mostly Mojtaheds, so they became known as Mojtahedi. And the Friday prayers’ imam of Tabriz in the era of Fath Ali Shah was handed over to Mirza Lotf Ali, a son of Haj Ahmad Mojtahed and this position remained in the descendants of Haji Ahmad until the recent times.
Twelfth: Digital document of Astan Quds Razavi about the emblem of the doorman named Haji Mohammad Ali Mojtahed Gharaje Daghi (Google).
Fourteenth: The documents and pedigree of the family of Haji Mohammad Jafar Gharaje Daghi, who resided in Istanbul, were provided by the engineer Dariush Gharaje Daghi and the text of the book of contemporary scientists was given to the producer by their brother i.e. Sadegh, who had given it to Dr. Fereydoon Gharaje Daghi.
Fifteenth: The pedigree of the four children of Haji Ahmad Mojtahed, which was received in 34 pages by the late Yousef Najmabadi, who had studied about four out of five children of Haji Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed, by Dr. Hassan Javadi, a member of the clan. Sixteenth: List of books of Gharaje Daghi clan as well as the original commands and documents in the family by the late Sirus Garaje Daghi and other documents by reviewing the books written in the treatise of Haji Mohammad Ali Mojtahed. This pedigree was prepared by me, Masood Gharaje Daghi, taking the full responsibility and is dedicated to the clan individuals.
Translation by Mojdeh Kamran (October 2021)