88
321–43/933–54
Governors in Khurasan and Amīrs of Chaghāniyān
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321/933 |
Muḥammad b. al-Muẓaffar b. Muḥtāj, Abū Bakr, governor in Khurasan, d. 329/941 |
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⊘ 327/939 |
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, Abū ‘Alī, first governorship in Khurasan |
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333/945 |
Governorship of Ibrāhīm b. Sīmjūr |
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335/946 |
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, second governorship |
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335/947 |
Governorship of Manṣūr b. Qaratigin |
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340–3/952–4 |
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, third governorship, d. 344/955 |
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late fourth/tenth |
Muḥammad b. ?, Abu ’l-Muẓaffar Fakhr |
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and early fifth/eleventh |
al-Dawla, Amīr of Chaghāniyān, ? a Muḥtājid |
The Muḥtāj family were hereditary lords of the principality of Chaghāniyān on the north bank of the middle Oxus, but whether they were descendants of the indigenous, presumably Iranian, Chaghān Khudās from the time of the Arab invasions, or possibly Persianised Arabs, is unknown. They appear as commanders for the Sāmānids, and then as governors and commanders-in-chief in Khurasan for the Amīrs, in the second quarter of the tenth century. Abū ‘Alī Aḥmad was a dominant figure there, but eventually died in exile. It seems, however, that the Muḥtājids retained their local base in Chaghāniyān, possibly into the eleventh century, since local princes there are mentioned, although their affiliation to the original line is uncertain.
Zambaur, 204; Album, 33.
EI2 ‘Muhtādjids’ (C. E. Bosworth); EIr ‘Āl-e Moḥtāj’ (Bosworth).
C. E. Bosworth, ‘The rulers of Chaghāniyān in early Islamic times’, JBIPS, 19 (1981), 1–20.