Khorshidi

The Khorshidi were a Lur dynasty of the Salburi clan who ruled Little Lorestan from Khorramabad between about 1184 and 1597. Their founder Shoja al-Din Khorshid, from whom the family took its name, inherited the lands of the Turkic lord Husamuddin Shuhli and made himself independent of the caliphal governors.

As atabegs they weathered the Mongol Ilkhanate, but Timur's invasion of 1386 devastated the province: the fortress of Khorramabad was razed and the ruler Izz al-Din deported to Turkestan before being released. The family recovered after Timur's death, and Shah Rostam backed Ismail I when the Safavids rose to power.

Caught between the Safavids and the Ottomans, the last chief Shahverdi twice rebelled against Shah Abbas I, who had him killed at Changuleh in 1597 and partitioned Little Lorestan. A collateral line continued to govern it as Safavid governors.