Abdol-Ali Mirza Farman Farmaian

Qajar prince

Abdol-Ali Mirza Farman Farmaian (1935–1973)^[1] was an Iranian businessman and nobleman. He was the youngest^[2] son of the Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma and his wife Batoul Khanoum.

Abdol-Ali Mirza Farman Farmaian was born on January 6, 1935. He studied at Oxford University^[1] in England, earning a degree in business. Upon returning to Iran, he became involved in several industrial projects, including the co-founding (with his brother Cyrus)^[3] of the Naft-e Pars Pars Oil Company, which became Iran's largest private petrochemical factory. Prince Abdol Ali Farman Farmaian died in an avalanche while skiing^[4] at the Dizin Resort near Tehran February 2, 1973, leaving his daughter Mariam and his two sons Salman and Abu-Ali.^[5]

He also co-founded the Chamber of Industries.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Library of Congress, Farmānfarmāʼiyān, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī, 1935-1973
^ "Blood and Oil", p.522
^ "Blood and Oil", p.347.
^ "Blood and Oil" p.401.
^ "Shahzdeh's Tree", Mitra Farman Farmaian Jordan, Seattle 1997, p. 154.
^ "Blood and Oil", p.347

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)