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Hajj Mirza Aghasi or Aqasi (حاج میرزا آقاسی), sometimes known as Haji-Mollah Abbas Iravani, was Sadr-e Aazam (equivalent to Prime Minister) of Mohammad Shah Qajar of Iran during 1835-1848. Mirza Aghasi initiated Mohammad Shah into Sufi mysticism, and the two men "came to be known as two 'dervishes'."〔Avery, ''Modern Iran'', p. 30.〕 While he has often been criticized for contributing to the disasters of the reign, it is possible that he was attempting to use Sufism as a weapon against the growing hold of the official representatives of religion, the mullahs, who were opposing both modernization and foreign influence. In foreign affairs, he managed to "prevent Iran disintegrating either into autonomous principalities or appanages of Russia, and Britain, " and internally he "revived the cultivation of the mulberry tree in the Kerman region, to feed silkworms; and he envisaged the diversion of the waters of the River Karaj for Tehran's water-supply."〔Avery, ''Modern Iran'', pp. 46-7.〕 The failure of Haj Mirza Aghasi's countrymen to praise him for his enterprise was partly no doubt due to an equally shrewd appreciation on their part that new economic alignments emerging during his period as Prime Minister were not destined to enrich the people, but only to make a rapacious aristocracy more powerful, while the situation of the cultivator became little better than slavery.〔Avery, ''Modern Iran'', p. 47.〕 Shoghi Effendi, head of the Bahá'í Faith in the first half of the 20th century, described Hajj Mirza Aghasi as "the Antichrist of the Bábí Revelation."〔Shoghi Effendi, ''God Passes By'', 164.〕 == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hajj Mirza Aghasi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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