Fadlawayhid

The Fadlawayhids ruled the Shabankara, an Iranian tribal confederation commonly described as Kurdish, which held eastern Fars from Ij. The Shabankara had been deported from Isfahan and Syria by the Buyid ruler Adud al-Dawla in the tenth century, and claimed descent from the Sasanian king Ardashir I.

The dynasty took its name from Fadluya, also called Fadlawayh, who overthrew the last Buyid ruler of Fars in 1062 before submitting to the Seljuks under Alp Arslan. Revolts ended in his death in captivity, but his family survived under Seljuk atabegs and the Ilkhans. Hulagu destroyed Ij and killed their chief in 1260; another rising failed in 1312.

The last chief Ardashir refused obedience to the Muzaffarids. In 1355 Mubariz al-Din sent his son against him and ended the dynasty's rule, though local Shabankara power may have lingered until 1424.