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206 Ali GheissariOliver Bast, ed., La Perse et la Grande Guerre (Tehran: IFRI, 2002), pp. 81–91;and James D. Clark, “Constitutionalists and Cossacks: The ConstitutionalMovement and Russian Intervention in Tabriz, 1907–11,” Iranian Studies 39/2(June 2006): 199–225. For a social and political survey of Azerbaijan in thesecond half of the nineteenth century and during the period leading up to theConstitutional Revolution, see James D. Clark, Provincial Concerns: A PoliticalHistory of the Iranian Province of Azerbaijan, 1848–1906 (Costa Mesa, CA:Mazda Publishers, 2006).25 Memoirs, p. 71. Hajj Hasan had departed for his pilgrimage to Mecca on 12Ramadan 1306 ah/12 May 1889, see Memoirs, p. 75.26 Memoirs, p. 67.27 Reference to Ali Beyg appears in Mehdi Moqaddam, ed., “Shajareh-Nameh-yeKhandan-e Jourabchi” [Family Tree of the Jourabchi Family], unpublished.Mehdi Moqaddam’s work is a valuable source of information regarding theJourabchi family and a relevant section of it is included in the new completeedition of the Memoirs.28 Memoirs, p. 73.29 Mohammad-Taqi’s siblings were Naqi (b. 12 Dhul-Qa’da 1286 ah/13 February1869), Soghra (b. 4 Dhul-Qa’da 1288 ah/12 January 1872), Robabeh (b. 26 Dhul-Qa’da 1290 ah/15 January 1874), Reza (b. 5 Ramadan 1294 ah/13 September 1877),Shafi’ (b. Muharram 1297 ah/December 1879), Fatemeh (b. 2 Rajab 1299 ah/20May 1882), Mohammad-Baqer (b. 1301 ah/1883), Rokhsareh (b. 1 Muharram1304 ah/29 September 1886), and Ma’soumeh (b. 4 Sha’ban 1306 ah/5 April 1889).For dates, see Memoirs, pp. 73–5; for list of names, see Mehdi Moqaddam, Shajareh-Nameh.30 Memoirs, p. 80.31 Memoirs, p. 73.32 Memoirs, p. 77. Accordingly, his mother’s grandfather, Mashhadi Hossein (d. 1235ah/1819), was “sha’r-baf ” (maker of silk material) and originally came from Shiraz.33 Memoirs, p. 82 and p. 91, in reference to the birth of his younger sisters,Robabeh and Ma’soumeh respectively, who were not mentioned by first name.34 For a photo of Hajj Mohammad-Taqi’s sisters, taken in the Pahlavi period, seeFig. 7.35 The Preface to Hajj Mohammad-Taqi’s Memoirs is signed by al-Ansari [?], anddated Shawwal 1338 ah⁄June/July 1920. As the date of Hajj Mohammad-Taqi’spassing has not yet been ascertained, the above observation could still apply toanyone from his associates or relatives who possessed the manuscript in 1920 whenthe Preface was written and added to it.36 See Mehdi Moqaddam, Shajareh-Nameh.37 Memoirs, p. 133.38 Memoirs, p. 151. During the Iranian Constitutional Revolution various politicalsocieties or councils were often referred to as “Anjoman” For the Anjoman ofTabriz, see Mansoureh Ettehadieh, “Anjoman-e Eyalati-e Tabriz,” EncyclopaediaIranica, online edn (http://www.iranica.com/articlenavigation/index.html);and Mansoureh Rafi’i, Anjoman: Organ-e Anjoman-e Ayalati-ye Azerbaijan[Anjoman: Paper of the Provincial Society of Azerbaijan] (Tehran: Nashr-eTarikh-e Iran, 1362/1983). For political societies in Iran during the period ofConstitutional Revolution, see A. K. S. Lambton, “Secret Societies and thePersian Revolution of 1905–1906,” St. Antony’s Papers 4, Middle Eastern Affairs1, (1958): 48–60; A. K. S. Lambton, “Persian Political Societies 1906–11,” St.Antony’s Papers 16, Middle Eastern Affairs 3 (1963): 41–89; and Janet Afary, TheIranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911: Grassroots Democracy, SocialDemocracy, and the Origins of Feminism (New York: Colombia University Press,1996), pp. 63–89. In fact Mohammad-Taqi Tabatabai was a principal member