Ughanids

The Ughanids represent the autonomous non-Muslim Mongol tribes known in Persian sources as the Avgani and Jormai, who pastured around Sirjan in Kerman. The Il-Khan Abaqa granted them autonomy; in 1337 they retained Mongol customs and Tengrist beliefs among their Muslim Persian neighbours.

After the Muzaffarid Mubariz al-Din Muhammad conquered Kerman in 1341, he tied the tribal chiefs to his dynasty by marriage. His son Shah Shoja married a chief’s daughter; they had three sons and a daughter, and the tribes were important allies.