She was from
Māzandarān and of
Jewish origin, and is sometimes referred to as "Maryam Khanom ''Bani Isra'il''" ( "sons - or children - of Israel") to distinguish her from Maryam Khanom Gorji, another consort of Fath-Ali. She was reported to have "no rival in beauty". When she was widowed the first time,
Hossein Khan Sardar, the brother of the new shah wished to marry her, but Fath-Ali instead married her himself, which caused a conflict between them. She had eleven children, among them prince Maḥmud Mirzā (1799–1835), Homāyun Mirzā (1801–1856) and Aḥmad-ʿAli Mirzā (born 1804). ==References==