An Ottoman mission to Tehran: Mehmed Tahir Münif Paşa’s second ambassadorship to Tehran and the re-making of Perso-Ottoman relations (1876-1897)

This article focuses on Mehmet Tahir Münif Paşa’s second ambassadorship to Iran (1896–1897) in the aftermath of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar’s assassination May 1896. It argues that Shah’s death brought about a turning point Perso-Ottoman diplomatic relations and Sultan Abdülhamid’s decision assign as his representative Tehran was an affirmation new age Ottoman foreign policy. In what follows, will consider Münif’s mission attempt bring greater specificity first half Hamidian era (1875–1896). also seeks explore how rapprochement between two states mid-1890s had unexpected consequences for Iranian émigrés Empire, thereby considering history is entangled with construction negotiation life trajectories circumstances these trans-national actors Empire.