104
c. 536–696/c. 1141–1297
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c. 536/1141 |
Sām b. Wardānrūz, Rukn al-Dīn, d. 590/1194 |
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c. 584/1188 |
Langar b. Wardānrūz, ‘Izz al-Dīn, succeeded during his father’s lifetime and reigned for nearly twenty years, d. 604/1207 |
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604/1207 |
Wardānrūz b. Langar, Muḥyī ’l-Din |
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616/1219 |
Isfahsālār b. Langar, Abū Manṣūr Quṭb al-Dīn |
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626/1229 |
Maḥmūd Shāh b. Abī Manṣūr Isfahsālār |
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639/1241 |
Salghur Shāh b. Maḥmūd Shāh |
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650/1252 |
Ṭogha(n) Shāh b. Salghur Shāh |
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⊘ 670/1272 |
‘Alā’ al-Dawla b. Ṭogha(n) Shāh |
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⊘ 673/1275 |
Yūsuf Shāh b. Ṭogha(n) Shāh |
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696/1297 |
Mongol conquest |
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c. 715–18/c. 1315–18 |
Ḥājjī Shāh b. Yūsuf Shāh, overthrown by local rivals |
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719/1319 |
Muẓaffarid governor |
This line of local rulers in the central Persian town of Yazd succeeded the branch of the Kākūyids there (see above, no. 78). From the names of their earlier members at least, it seems that they were ethnically Persian, but, like the Hazāraspids (see above, no. 102), they adopted the Turkish title of Atabeg. This came about because the Great Seljuq sultan Sanjar appointed the founder of the line, Sām b. Wardānrūz, Atabeg to the daughters of the deceased last Kākūyid, Abū Kalījār Garshāsp II, in c. 536/c. 1141. Sām’s successors were at first vassals of the Seljuqs and then, in the the next century, tributary to the Mongols; the Atabeg Ṭogha(n) Shāh b. Salghur Shāh had to send troops to the Mongol army attacking Alamūt and other Ismā‘īlī fortresses of northern Persia in 654/1256. The penultimate Atabeg, Yūsuf Shāh, fell into arrears of tribute, and had to flee to Sistan before an army sent out by the I1 Khānid Ghazan, after which a Mongol darugha or police commander was appointed over Yazd. A son of his was reappointed over Yazd in c. 715/c. l315, but was overthrown three years later by local rivals and the town soon afterwards passed under the control of the Muẓaffarids (see below, no. 140) as vassals of the I1 Khānids.
Sachau, 27 no. 66; Zambaur, 231.
EIr ‘Atābakān-e Yazd’ (S. C. Fairbanks).
Ja‘far b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan Ja‘farī, Ta ’rīkh-i Yazd, ed. Īraj Afshār, Tehran 1338/1960, 23–9.
Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī Kātib, Ta ’rīkh -i jadīd-i Yazd, ed. Afshār, Tehran 1345/1966, 66–79.