Kurdish History Journal
Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ruled Dvin before taking power in Ganja in 1049. His reign, ending in 1067, can be studied through chronicles and a dated inscription from Ganja's gates.
Read article →Lashkari II ibn Musa (1034–1049 CE) ruled the Shaddadid Kurdish dynasty of Ganja for 15 years before Abu'l-Aswar Shavur I's celebrated reign. Discover his place in Kurdish history.
Read article →Musa ibn Fadl ruled the Shaddadid principality from Ganja in 1031–1034. The sparse record includes conflict involving the Rus and a violent succession, rather than a documented peaceful transition.
Read article →Fadl I ibn Muhammad (985–1031 CE) ruled the Shaddadid Kurdish dynasty for 46 years, building Ganja into a major city and establishing the dynasty's enduring power in Transcaucasia.
Read article →Hilal ibn Badr was a ruler of the Kurdish Hasanwayhid dynasty, son of the celebrated Badr ibn Hasanwayh. Discover his place in Kurdish medieval Zagros history.
Read article →Zahir ibn Hilal ibn Badr (r. 1013 CE) was a ruler of the Kurdish Hasanwayhid dynasty in the Zagros Mountains, son of Hilal ibn Badr. Discover his place in Kurdish medieval history.
Read article →Mansur ibn Nasr was the last principal ruler of the Kurdish Marwanid dynasty in Diyar Bakr. His career includes a contested court, the Seljuk conquest of 1085, a short restoration in 1093 and evidence of patronage preserved in inscriptions.
Read article →Nizam al-Din Nasr, also known as Nizam al-Dawla, ruled the Kurdish Marwanid principality after 1061. Inscriptions, chronicles and manuscript research document his court and public works.
Read article →Nasr al-Dawla Ahmad (1011–1061 CE) was the greatest Marwanid Kurdish king, reigning 50 years from Diyarbakır while masterfully balancing Byzantine, Fatimid, and Buyid pressures. Discover his extraordinary reign.
Read article →The third Marwanid ruler governed from Mayyafariqin after 997. His Byzantine diplomacy, a dated building inscription and the coins of his assassin provide a more concrete account of his reign than general claims about a dynastic golden age.
Read article →Abu Ali al-Hasan succeeded Badh around 990 and ruled in Diyar Bakr until his assassination. A dedicated biography and surviving material evidence clarify his place in early Marwanid history.
Read article →Abu Shuja' Badh ibn Dustak founded the Kurdish Marwanid dynasty of Diyar Bakr (Diyarbakır) in 983 CE. Discover the story of this remarkable Kurdish warrior-king.
Read article →Abu Nasr Husayn II (r. 1001–1025 CE) was a Rawadid Kurdish ruler of Tabriz and Azerbaijan. Discover his place in the history of this Kurdish dynasty.
Read article →Marzuban was a son of Muhammad ibn Shaddad and an early ruler of the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty. His short rule in Ganja ended when his brother Fadl killed him and took power in 985.
Read article →Badr ruled the Hasanwayhid principality from 979 to 1014. His career is documented through Buyid politics, accounts of patronage, inscribed bridges and coins, and conflict with his son Hilal.
Read article →Al-Mawardi (974–1058 CE) was a major Islamic jurist and political theorist whose work on governance shaped the world of the Kurdish dynasties of the 10th–11th centuries.
Read article →Hasanwayh (d. 979 CE) founded the Hasanwayhid dynasty c. 961 CE in the Zagros Mountains, controlling Dinawar, Hamadan, and Lorestan. Discover his place in Kurdish history.
Read article →Lashkari ibn Muhammad (d. 978 CE) was the son of the Shaddadid founder Muhammad ibn Shaddad and the first significant ruler of the Shaddadid Kurdish dynasty in Armenia.
Read article →Evdilsemedê Babek (972–1019 CE) was one of the first known Kurdish Islamic poets. Discover his place in Kurdish literary history.
Read article →Daysam ibn Ibrahim al-Kurdi (d. c. 957 CE) was a Kurdish commander who ruled Azerbaijan intermittently from 938–955 CE. Discover his turbulent story in Kurdish history.
Read article →Muhammad ibn Shaddad’s brief rule at Dvin around 951–954 began a dynasty whose later branches ruled Ganja and Ani. His career includes contested urban authority, military defeat and refuge with an Armenian ruler.
Read article →Muhammad ibn Husayn appears at the beginning of the tenth-century Rawadid succession. The surviving account distinguishes his territorial gains from the later capture of Tabriz and warns against merging rulers who shared names.
Read article →Ibn al-Dahhak (d. 927 CE) was a Kurdish figure of the late Abbasid era. Discover his place in the Kurdish tradition of resistance and political leadership.
Read article →Mir Jafar Dasni is remembered as a Kurdish leader who resisted Abbasid authority near Mosul. A medieval chronicle and later Yazidi histories preserve different layers of the account.
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