Āghā Muḥammad Khān Qājār (ca. 1155–1211/1742–1797) was the leader of the Qājār tribe, as well as the dynastic founder of a long line of Qājār rulers. He was born in Astarābād, the oldest son of Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān Quwānlū and the daughter of Iskandar Khān Quwānlū (Iʿtimād al-Salṭana, Tārīkh, 3/23). Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān succeeded his father Fatḥ ʿAlī Khān, the commander-in-chief (sipahsālār) of the Ṣafawid Shāh Ṭahmāsb II…