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The Bādūspānids

c. 493 to the tenth century/c. 1100 to the sixteenth century

The Caspian coastland districts of Rūyān and Rustamdār

1. The rulers of the united principality

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Naṣr b. Sharīwash (? Shahrnūsh), Sharaf al-Dīn, Nāṣir al-Dawla, ruling in 502/1109

?

Shahrīwash b. Hazārasp, ruling c. 553/1168

?

Kay Kāwūs b. Hazārasp, d. c. 580/c. 1184

c. 580–1 /c. 1184–5

Hazārasp b. Shahrīwash

?

Zarrīn Kamar b. Justān b. Kay Kāwūs, d. 610/1213

610–20/1213–23

Bīsutūn b. Zarrīn Kamar, d. 620/1223

later 620s/early 1230s

Nāmāwar b. Bīsutūn, Fakhr al-Dawla, d. 640/1242

640/1242

Ardashīr b. Nāmāwar, Ḥusām al-Dawla, in Daylam, d. 640/1242

640/1242

Iskandar b. Nāmāwar, in Rūyān

640/1242

Shahrāgīm b. Nāmāwar, in Daylam and Rūyān, d. 671/1273

671/1273

Nāmāwar Shāh Ghāzī b. Shahrāgīm, Fakhr al-Dawla

701/1302

Kay Khusraw b. Shahrāgīm

712/1312

Muḥammad b. Kay Khusraw, Shams al-Mulūk

717/1317

Shahriyār b. Kay Khusraw, Nāṣir al-Dīn

725/1325

Ziyār b. Kay Khusraw, Tāj al-Dawla

734/1334

Iskandar b. Ziyār, Jalāl al-Dawla

761/1360

Shāh Ghāzī b. Ziyār, Fakhr al-Dawla

781/1379

Qubād b. Shāh Ghāzī, ‘Aḍud al-Dawla, d. 783/1381

783–92/1381–90

Rule in Rūyān by the Mar‘ashī Sayyids

792/1390

Ṯūs b. Ziyār, Sa‘d al-Dawla, d. 796/1394

Tīmūrid occupation of the Caspian coastlands

c. 802/c. 1400

Kayūmarth b. Bīsutūn b. Gustahm b. Ziyār

857/1453

Division of the kingdom into two branches

2. The rulers in Kujūr (with the title of Malik)

c. 858/c. 1454

Iskandar b. Kayūmarth

881/1476

Tāj al-Dawla b. Iskandar

897/1492

Ashraf b. Tāj al-Dawla

915/1509

Kāwūs b. Ashraf

950/1543

Kayūmarth b. Kāwūs

963/1556

Jahāngīr b. Kāwūs

975/1568

Sulṭān Muḥammad b. Jahāngīr

998-1004 or 1006/

Jahāngīr b. Muḥammad

1590-1596 or 1598

Direct rule by the Ṣafawids

3. The rulers in Nūr (with the title of Malik)

c. 858/c. 1454

Kāwūs b. Kayūmarth

871/1467

Jahāngīr b. Kāwūs

904/1499

Bīsutūn b. Jahāngīr

913/1507

Bahman b. Bīsutūn

957/1550

Kayūmarth b. Bahman, d. after 984/1576

?

Sulṭān ‘Azīz b. Kayūmarth

?–1002/?–1594

Jahāngīr b. ‘Azīz

1002/1594

Power assumed by the Ṣafawids

The line of the Bādūspānids in the Caspian region claimed a connection, which cannot however be demonstrated with any certainty, with earlier rulers of Rūyān; these last had asserted their descent from the semi-legendary Bādūspān, a contemporary of the Dābūyids of Gīlān (see above, no. 79), hence going back to late Sāsānid times. The Bādūspānids, who are known from the late eleventh century onwards, bore the historic, local title of Ustāndār, and later that of Malik or king, but they seem to have been unconnected with the immediately preceding line of Ustāndārs. They first appear as vassals of the Seljuqs, and within the Caspian region they were neighbours and kinsmen by marriage of the Bāwandids (see above, no. 80) and other petty rulers there, including, latterly, the Mar‘ashī Sayyids of Māzandarān. They survived the Mongols and Tīmūrids, but after the mid-fifteenth century they split into two parallel branches, ruling in Kujūr and Nūr respectively, until their lands were incorporated by Shāh ‘Abbās I into the Ṣafawid empire.

Justi, 433–5; Sachau, 8–9 nos 8–10; Zambaur, 190–1, both these latter being unreliable.

EI2 ‘Bādūsbānids’ (B. Nikitine); EIr ‘Bādūspānids’ (W. Madelung), the most reliable account, on which the above is based.

H. M. Rabino, ‘Les dynasties du Māzandarān de l’an 50 avant l’Hégire à l’an 1006 de l’Hégire (572 à 1597–1598) d’après les chroniques locales’, JA, 228 (1936), 443–74.

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