Ghulām ʿAlī Khān ʿAzīz al-Sulṭān (1879–1940), also known as Malījak II (Malījak-i Thānī/Malījak-i Duvvum), was a favourite page boy of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (r. 1848–96) the fourth shah of the Qājār dynasty (1789–1925). He was the grandson of a Kurdish shepherd from a small village in Garrūs province (now part of Kurdistān, Zanjān, and Hamadān provinces). His father was Mīrzā Muḥammad Khān Garrūsī, known as Malījak I (Malījak-i Avval, later Amīn Khāqān; c. 1859–c. 1920), Nāṣir al-Dīn’s page boy (farrāsh-i khalvat) and valet (pīsh-khidmat). The nickname Malījak is a corruption of a…