Mazenjani

The Mazenjani were a Kurdish leading family of Erbil in the Ilkhanid period. After the Mongol siege of 1258 and the fall of the citadel in 1259, they chose to serve the new order.

Their chief Mubariz al-Din Kak received a payza, the Mongol decree tablet, authorizing him to collect taxes at Erbil and Aqra, and Ghazan Khan confirmed the vassal standing of such Kurdish houses through documents of safe conduct written in the Uyghur script. The family thus kept its local position while Mongol rule lasted.