Zubayda Khānum Amīna-yi Aqdas (d. 1893) was one of the favourite and most powerful wives of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qājār's (r. 1848-96). She was born in a village near Garrūs, in Kurdistān, to a poor shepherd family. It was through Anīs al-Dawla (d. 1896), Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh's then-favourite wife and de facto queen, that she came to the royal ḥaram (the part of a house set apart for the women of the family, referring also collectively to the women themselves). Accompanying her