Polity · 936 CE – 1055 CE
Buyid Dynasty
الدولة البويهية
- Peak recorded area
- 1,309,060 km²
- 980 CE
- Rulers on record
- 24
- from 884 CE
Overview
The Buyid dynasty or Buyid Empire was a Zaydi and later Twelver Shi'a dynasty of Daylamite origin. Founded by Imad al-Dawla, they mainly ruled over central and southern Iran, and Iraq from 934 to 1062. The Buyids, together with the rise of other Iranian dynasties in the region, represents a period in Iranian history sometimes referred to as the Iranian Intermezzo.
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Territory
8 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
24 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn TulunAmir884 CE – 896 CE
- Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn KhumarawayhAmir896 CE
- Abu al-Jaysh IshaqAmir904 CE – 981 CE
- Wasul ibn Thakiyya al-FathAmir909 CE – 913 CE
- Ahmad ibn ThakiyyaAmir913 CE – 921 CE
- Mu'izz al-DawlaAmir945 CE – 967 CE
- Adud al-DawlaAmir949 CE – 983 CE
- Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn MuhammadAmir963 CE – 977 CE
- Izz al-DawlaAmir967 CE – 978 CE
- Ali I bin Muhammad LashkariAmir971 CE – 978 CE
- SabuktiginAmir977 CE – 997 CE
- Marzuban bin MuhammadAmir978 CE – 985 CE
- Labib al-Fata al-SaqlabiAmir1009 CE – 1039 CE
- Muḥammad ibn KhazrūnAmir1012 CE – 1030 CE
- Mujahid al-AmiriAmir1014 CE – 1045 CE
- Al-AkhalAmir1019 CE – 1037 CE
- Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-BirzaliAmir1023 CE – 1042 CE
- Abdun ibn MuhammadAmir1030 CE – 1053 CE
- Hasan as-SamsamAmir1040 CE – 1053 CE
- Ishaq bin Mohammed al-BirzaliAmir1042 CE – 1052 CE
- Abd al-Malik ibn RazinAmir1044 CE – 1103 CE
- Alí ibn Mujàhid Iqbal-ad-DawlaAmir1044 CE – 1076 CE
- al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-BirzaliAmir1052 CE – 1066 CE
- Muhammad IIAmir1053 CE – 1069 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Arabic, Mazanderani, Middle Persian
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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Buyid Dynasty is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.