Hope, Michael

Abū Saʿīd Bahādur Khān (r. 717–36/1318–35) was the ninth ruler of the Īlkhānate, which dominated Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, and the Caucasus between 656/1258 and 736/1335. He was born in 704/1305, the third son of the Īlkhān Uljaytū Khudābandah (r. 703–16/1304–16), and was raised i…

The Banū Faḍlawayh were the leading family of the Shabānkāra, whose eponymous founder, Faḍlawayh (also Faḍlūn), temporarily seized control of Fārs in the middle of the eleventh century. Little is known of the nomadic Shabānkārids prior to 430/1038–9, when they were driven from I…