Abdol-Ali Mirza Farmanfarmaian

Son of the Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Batoul Khanoum.

Abdol-Ali Mirza Farman Farmaian was born in 1932. He studied at the Oxford University in the UK with a degree in business. Upon moving back to Iran, he was involved in several industrial project, including the foundation of the Naft-e Pars Pars Oil Company which became Iran's largest private petrochemical factory. Prince Abdol Ali Farmanfarmaian died in a ski accident at the Deezin Resort near Tehran in 1973, having left two children, his sons Salman and Abu-Ali.

He served as the vice president for the Chamber of Industries.

Sources

• Daughter of Persia; Sattareh Farman Farmaian with Dona Munker; Crown Publishers,Inc., New York,1992
• Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince; Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian. Random House, New York, 1997

See also

• Persia
• History of Persia
• History of Iran
• Qajar Dynasty of Iran

External links

• The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages
• Qajars Dynasty Turkoman dynasty of the Shahs of Persia