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It is said that Nāṣer-al-dīn gave Moḥammad the nickname malījak (corruption of melīčak “little sparrow” in Kurdish [melīč: “bird, sparrow” with the diminutive ending -ak], later further corrupted to Manījak) when the unpolished Kurdish shepherd boy, upon seeing a sparrow exclaimed “malījak!” Moḥammad’s one year-old son, Ḡolām ʿAlī, first caught the attention of the Shah during the latter’s visits to Zobayda Ḵānūm Amīna Aqdas (q.v.), the trusted and influential wife of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah and the elder sister of Malījak I (Dūst-ʿAlī Khan Moʿayyer-al-mamālek, Rejāl-e ʿaṣr-e nāṣerī, Tehran, 1361 Š./1982, p. 240).
Malijak Darbar
It is said that Nāṣer-al-dīn gave Moḥammad the nickname malījak (corruption of melīčak “little sparrow” in Kurdish [melīč: “bird, sparrow” with the diminutive ending -ak], later further corrupted to Manījak) when the unpolished Kurdish shepherd boy, upon seeing a sparrow exclaimed “malījak!” Moḥammad’s one year-old son, Ḡolām ʿAlī, first caught the attention of the Shah during the latter’s visits to Zobayda Ḵānūm Amīna Aqdas (q.v.), the trusted and influential wife of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah and the elder sister of Malījak I (Dūst-ʿAlī Khan Moʿayyer-al-mamālek, Rejāl-e ʿaṣr-e nāṣerī, Tehran, 1361 Š./1982, p. 240).