He is noted for being the author of four comedies, which, for a long period of time had erroneously been attributed to the diplomat and advocate of modernization Mirza Malkam Khan (died 1908).
[2] In the same letter, Tabrizi states that he has worked for several years at the Iranian royal teachers' training college (perhaps referring to the mo'allem-khaneh-ye padeshahi) as well as at Iranian diplomatic posts abroad in Baghdad and Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, and for seven years as first secretary (monshi-e awwal) at the Embassy of France in Tehran.
[2] According to extant information, Tabrizi worked as a civil servant in 1846 in the Khorasan Province in the northeastern part of the country, and in 1853-58 he functioned as an interpreter and instructor in French at the Dar ul-Funun School.
[2] His earlier mentioned posts at Baghdad and Constantinople were reportedly in conjunction with the appointment of Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh as the new ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
At this point, Tabrizi was apparently still inexperienced about European travel; according to Hasan Javadi and Farrokh Gaffary, he would have otherwise "had some understanding of the structure and functioning of a theater, something clearly lacking in his plays".