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c. 350–406/c. 961–1015
Southern Kurdistan
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c. 350/c. 961 |
Ḥasanawayh b. Ḥusayn al-Barzīkānī, Abu ’1-Fawāris, d. 369/979 |
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⊘ 370/980 |
Badr b. Ḥasanawayh, Abu ’1-Najm Nāṣir al-Dīn, d. 405/1014 |
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404/1013 |
Ṭāhir or ẓāhir b. Hilāl b. Badr, in Shahrazūr |
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405/1014 |
Hilāl b. Badr |
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405–6/1014–15 |
Ṭāhir b. Hilāl |
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406/1015 |
Conquest by the ‘Annāzids |
Ḥasanawayh was a chief of the Kurdish Barzīkānī tribe who built up for himself a principality in the region round Qarmāsīn (the later Kirmānshāh). He and his son Badr skilfully maintained their power as vassals of the Būyids (see above, no. 75) by supporting various contenders for power in the struggles between Fakhr al-Dawla of the northern Būyid amirate on the one hand and ‘Aḍud al-Dawla and his successors in Fārs and Iraq on the other. They also achieved contemporary reputations for their just and beneficent rule among a Kurdish people whose very name was synonymous with violence and rapacity. Latterly, however, the Ḥasanūyids were overshadowed by a rival family of Kurdish chiefs, the ‘Annāzids (see below, no. 77), who killed Ṭāhir b. Hilāl and generally replaced the Ḥasanūyids in central Kurdistan. The family only managed to hold on to a few fortresses like that of Sarmāj near Bīsutūn until a descendant of Badr’s died there in 439/1047.
Lane-Poole, 138; Zambaur, 211; Album, 36.
EI2 ‘Ḥasanawayh’ (Cl. Cahen).