Injuid

The Injuids were an Iranian dynasty that ruled Fars from Shiraz and, at their height, Isfahan in the fourteenth century. Their name came from the injü, the Mongol term for the royal estates: in 1304 the Ilkhan Öljeitü entrusted Sharaf al-Din Mahmud Shah with the administration of the crown lands in Fars.

The family became virtual governors of the province, and after the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id died in 1335 it became independent. Sharaf al-Din's sons fought for Shiraz until Jamal al-Din Abu Ishaq seized it in 1343. In 1351 the dynasty commissioned the Khuda Khane, the Qur'an repository inside the Atigh Jame' Mosque.

Abu Ishaq's rivalry with the Muzaffarids ended: their ruler Mubariz al-Din Muhammad took Shiraz in 1353 and Isfahan in 1357, when Abu Ishaq was executed and the Injuid lands passed to the Muzaffarids, who held them until Timur's conquest forty years later.