Azam Jah

Sahebzada Mir Himayat Ali Khan Siddiqi Azam Jah (اعظم جاہ داماد والاشان صاحب زادہ نواب سر میر حمایت علی خان بہادر بے آفندی; 21/22 February 1907 – 9 October 1970) was the eldest son of the seventh and last nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII and Sahebzadi Azam unnisa Begum, daughter of Sahebzada Mir Jahangir Ali Khan Siddiqi.

Azam Jah married Princess Durru Shehvar, a member of the House of Osman (formerly of the Ottoman Empire) and the daughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II, in Nice on 12 November 1932.

The marriage failed after producing two sons.

On the death of the seventh nizam, the title passed to Azam Jah's elder son, Sahebzada Mir Barkat Ali Khan Siddiqi Mukarram Jah, as eighth nizam.

Whereas, Azam's younger son is Sahebzada Mir Karamat Ali Khan Siddiqi Muffakham Jah.

He lived at Bella Vista, Hyderabad, a 10 acre palace near Hussain Sagar.

In 1936 he was given the courtesy title of prince of Berar, a territory of the nizam then leased in perpetuity to the British and administered by them.

The (Nizamia Mosque) now known as (London Central Mosque) was funded by the Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII and the foundation stone of the mosque was laid on Friday, 4 June 1937, by his eldest son - His Highness Prince Azam Jah.

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