Abu'l-Qasim Jafar ( fa, ابوالقاسم جعفر), was an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

statesman from the

Fasanjas family The Fasanjas family (also spelled Fasanjus), was the name of a Persian noble-family which served the Buyid dynasty. The first member of the family was Abu'l-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Fasanjas, a rich nobleman native to Shiraz, who was in the service of the ...

who served the

Buyid dynasty The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran from 934 to 1062. Coupl ...

. He was the son of

Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad ( fa, ابوالقاسم فرج محمد), was an Iranian statesman Fasanjas family who served the Buyid dynasty. He was the son Abu'l-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Fasanjas, a rich Iranian noble from the Fasanjas family which was native t ...

, and was appointed in 1012 by the

Buyid The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran from 934 to 1062. Coupl ...

ruler

Sultan al-Dawla Abu Shuja ( fa, ابو شجاع; 993 – December 1024), better known by his ''laqab'' of Sultan al-Dawla (Persian: سلطان الدوله, "Power of the Dynasty"), was the Buyid amir of Fars (1012–1024) and Iraq (1012–1021). He was the son o ...

as his vizier. Abu'l Qasim Jafar later died in 1029. He has a son known as Dhu'l-Sa'adat, who continued to occupy high offices under the Buyids.

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* * * Fasanjas family 1029 deaths 11th-century Iranian people People from Shiraz Year of birth unknown Buyid viziers {{noble-stub