Hazaraspid

The Hazaraspids were a Kurdish Sunni dynasty that ruled the Zagros highlands of southwestern Iran, chiefly Greater Luristan, from 1115 to 1424, with their capital at Idaj. Their ancestor Fadlawi migrated from Syria through Adharbayjan to Luristan; the founder Abu Tahir ibn Muhammad, of Shabankara stock, was a commander of the Salghurids before becoming independent as atabeg.

The dynasty was named for his son Malik Hazarasp, whose Persian name means thousand horses and who aided the Khwarezmshah Jalal al-Din against the Mongols. As Ilkhanid vassals the family enlarged its domains: Yusuf Shah I gained Khuzestan and Golpayegan, while Yusuf Shah II seized Shushtar, Hoveizeh and Basra in the 1330s.

Afrasiab I was executed by Ghazan in 1296, and the Muzaffarids briefly occupied Idaj later in the fourteenth century. In 1424 the Timurid Shahrukh overthrew the last atabeg, Ghiyath al-Din, and annexed Greater Luristan.