Muzaffarid

The Muzaffarids were a Persianized dynasty of Arab descent whose ancestors fled the Mongol invasion of Khorasan for Yazd, where they served the Ilkhans as governors of Maibud. Its founder, Mubariz al-Din Muhammad, overthrew the atabeg of Yazd around 1319, seized Kirman in 1340, and destroyed the rival Injuids to take Shiraz in 1353.

His son Shah Shoja blinded and deposed him in 1358. He ruled until 1384 and made Shiraz a center of Arabic and Persian letters, where the poet Hafez flourished; the family also enlarged the Jameh Mosque of Yazd, completing its tiled dome in 1375.

Fraternal wars between Shah Shoja's sons then weakened the realm. When Timur invaded, Shah Mansur was defeated and beheaded at the Battle of Shiraz in 1393; the remaining Muzaffarid princes were executed soon after, ending the dynasty.