Muhammad ibn Haytham or Muhammad I (Arabic: محمد) was second shah of Shirvan after death of his father Haytham b. Khalid. Information about him is minimal...

Ibrahim I (Persian: ابراهیم) was the 33rd Shirvanshah (ruler of Shirvan, r. 1382–1418). Because of his cunning politics he managed to remain independent...

was killed. Muhammad-khan moved further and captured Agsu, the new capital of Shirvan. During 1743-1745 Muhammad-khan resided in Shirvan. In 1745 Nasrulla-Mirza...

dates of birth and death are not known. He was a son of Kayqubad, and brother of Kavus I, and father of Ibrahim I of Shirvan and Bahlul of Shirvan. He was...

March 916) Ahmad b. Abd al-Malik I (27 February 939 – June 939) Haytham ibn Muhammad (son of Muhammad III of Shirvan) (June 939 – May 941) Ahmad (2nd...

Minuchihr or Manuchehr I (Persian: منوچهر) was the eleventh Shah of Shirvan. He is considered to be first fully Persianized ruler of the dynasty. Starting...

wed his daughter to Mirza Muhammad. Cihan Shah spent the winter of 1466 in Tabriz. The following year, he invaded Shirvan and obtained the places that...

Ali I (Arabic: علی) was shah of Shirvan (located in the modern day Azerbaijan). He succeeded his father Haytham II. Later, making an alliance with Muhammad...

the region of Shirvan (in Azerbaijan) in the mid 9th century. Starting from Haytham ibn Khalid's assumption of the ancient Iranian title of Shirvanshah...

Ahmad of Shirvan (Arabic: احمد) was the eighth Shah of Shirvan. He was born to Muhammad III while he was still governor of Layzan and had a younger brother...

tenth Shirvanshah. Yazid was second son of Shirvanshah Ahmad. He followed his brother Muhammad IV on throne of Shirvan c. November 991. Yazid on the other...

1348) was the 31st ruler of Shirvan. His rule was dominated by Chobanid overlordship. According to Munejjimbashi, he was a son of Farrukhzad II. This view...

At the height of Eldiguzid power, their territory stretched from Isfahan in the south to the borders of Kingdom of Georgia and Shirvan in the north. However...

to take Shirvan in 1532, which was stalled due to Uzbek invasion. As a result, in March 1538 Tahmasp I ordered Alqas to move against Shirvan together...

his sons Aghasi Khan and Muhammad Said khan Sarkar rose up against Hajji Muhammad Ali Khan, starting a diarchy in the Shirvan Khanate. Another brother...

The Shirvanshahs (Arabic/Persian: شروانشاه) were the rulers of Shirvan (in present-day Azerbaijan) from 861 to 1538. The first ruling line were the Yazidids...

(Persian: فریبرز بن سالار), better simply known as Fariburz I (فریبرز), was the sixteenth Shah of Shirvan, ruling from 1063 to 1096. His reign saw many major...

title of “Shirvanshah” referred to the local rulers of Servan (Shirvan), who received their titles from the first Sassanid emperor, Ardashir I. From the...

work—by selecting the title Shahnama-yi Al-i Osman. The calligraphers of the work hailed from Shiraz, Shirvan and Herat and were experts in the Nastaliq...

He soon died himself and the Safavid army was able to capture Ganja, Shirvan and Shamakhi in Azerbaijan. The Long Turkish War between the Ottomans and...

Kakheti send his son Demetre to Shirvan to negotiate a peace agreement. The successful conquest had alarmed the ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu, Alvand, who subsequently...

Yazid I was sixth Shah of Shirvan and third Shah of Layzan. He was reigning as Layzanshah as heir of his father Muhammad. He attacked Shirvan c. 917...

banks of the Agsu River in Shirvan. The Safavid army, under the command of the Crown Prince Hamza Mirza, defeated the army of the Ottoman ally, the Crimean...

independent ruler of Shirvan, renouncing the suzerainty of the Abbasid Caliphate in 861 after the Anarchy at Samarra and beginning the rule of the Mazyadid...

Din was executed on spot. In 1425 brothers of Khalilullah I - Keygobad, Ishaq and Hashim - revolted in Shirvan, shah requested help from Qara Iskander....

Georgia and Shirvan. Shirvan fell before the end of the summer of 1578, by which fact the Ottomans had now control of almost all territories west of the Caspian...

incorporated to Shirvan by 13th century. Prince Sultan Muhammad of Shirvan was a wali of Derbent whose son Ibrahim I of Shirvan was a first shah of branch. Family...

prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as an ode-writer to the Shirvanshahs. His fame most securely...

شاوران), was a town and district in the historical region of Shirvan, in what is now the eastern part of Azerbaijan. Shabaran was founded by the Sasanian king...

Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān". Journal of Persianate Studies. 9 (1): 19–44. doi:10.1163/18747167-12341296...