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{{Infobox family
| parent_family = [[Banu Shayban]]
| founded = [[8th century]]
| founder = [[Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani]]
| other_families = [[Kasranids]]<br>
[[Darbandids]]
| titles = [[Shirvanshah]]<br>[[Layzanshah]]<br>[[Emirate of Derbent|Emir of Derbent]]
}}

The '''Yazidids''' ({{Langx|ar|بنو يزيد|translit=Bānū Yāzīd}}) or '''Mazyadids''' (after their ancestor Mazyad al-Shaybani) or '''Shaybanids''' (after [[Banu Shayban]]), were an [[Arabs in the Caucasus|Arab]] family what came to rule over 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]]'' in 861, they practically broke free of [[Abbasid]] control and was therefore out of scope for most chroniclers of the Caliphate.{{sfn|Minorsky|1958|p=57}}

==Branches==
The dynasty was named after [[Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani]], an Abbasid [[Governor]] of [[Arminiya]]h. Yazidid dynasty was first generation of whole independent [[Shirvanshahs]]. Dynasty ruled both [[Shirvan]] and [[Layzan]], until latter invaded [[Shamakhy]] and united crowns.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Aram Ter-Ghevondyan |last=Ter-Ghewondyan |first=Aram |others=Transl. Nina G. Garsoïan |title=The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia |publisher=Livraria Bertrand |location=Lisbon |year=1976 |url=http://rbedrosian.com/Ref/Aeba/aebatoc.html |oclc=490638192 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014040744/http://rbedrosian.com/Ref/Aeba/aebatoc.html |archivedate=2013-10-14 }}</ref> The dynasty was a vassal and tributary state to [[Sallarids]], [[Sajids]] and others. The Mazyadid reign is largely unexplored due to lack of sources. Sometimes numismatic evidences are the only sources about reign and existence of shahs.

==Genealogy==
{{Tree list}}
* Mazyad b. Za'ida
** [[Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani]], [[Ostikan]] (d. {{circa|801}})
*** Muhammad ibn Yazid, [[Ostikan]] ({{circa|802/803}})
*** [[Asad ibn Yazid al-Shaybani]], [[Ostikan]] (d. {{circa|820}})
*** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Khalid ibn Yazid al-Shaybani]], [[Ostikan]] (802–844)
**** [[Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Shaybani]], [[Ostikan]] ({{circa|844–859)}}
****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Haytham ibn Khalid|Haytham I]], [[Shirvanshah]] (861–?)
***** [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Muhammad I of Shirvan|Muhammad I]], [[Shirvanshah]]
****** [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Haytham II of Shirvan|Haytham II]], [[Shirvanshah]]
******* [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Ali I of Shirvan|Ali I]], [[Shirvanshah]] (?–917)
******** Abbas
********* Abu Bakr
****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] Yazid ibn Khalid, [[Layzanshah]] (861–?)
***** [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Muhammad of Layzan|Muhammad I]], [[Layzanshah]] (?–917)
****** [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Abu Tahir Yazid|Yazid I]] (917–948)
******* Abd ul-Badr ibn Yazid
******* Ahmad, [[Emirate of Derbent|Emir of Derbent]] ({{Circa|944}})
******** Abul-Haytham 
******* [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Muhammad II of Shirvan|Muhammad II]] — [[Layzanshah]] (917–948), [[Tabasaran Principality|Tabasaranshah]] (917–948), [[Shirvanshah]] (948–956)
******** [[Haytham ibn Muhammad]], [[Tabasaran Principality|Tabasaranshah]] (948–?)
******** [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Ahmad of Shirvan|Ahmad]], [[Layzanshah]] (948–956), [[Shirvanshah]] (948–981)
********* [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Muhammad III of Shirvan|Muhammad III]] (981–991)
********* [[Image:Simple gold crown.svg|15px]] [[Yazid ibn Ahmad|Yazid II]] (991–1027)
********** ''Became ancestor of [[Kasranids]]''
********* Haytham ibn Ahmad, [[Tabasaran Principality|Tabasaranshah]] (?–1025)
** {{Tree list/final branch}}Ahmad, [[Ostikan]] ({{circa|811-812}})
{{Tree list/end}}The Mazyadids were succeeded by [[Kasranids]] which is regarded as the start of the cultural [[Persianization]] of Shirvan.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== Sources ==
* {{EI2|last1=Barthold|first1=W.|authorlink1=Vasily Bartold|last2=Bosworth|first2=C.E.|authorlink2=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|volume=9|title=S̲h̲īrwān S̲h̲āh|pages=488–489|year=1997a|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/shirwan-shah-SIM_6968}}
* {{EI2|last1=Barthold|first1=W.|last2=Bosworth|first2=C.E.|year=1997b|volume=9|title=S̲h̲īrwān|pages=487–488|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/shirwan-shah-SIM_6968}}
* {{cite book | last = Bosworth | first = C. E. | title = The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual | year = 1996 | publisher = Columbia University Press | location=New York City | isbn = 0-231-10714-5 }}
* {{cite encyclopedia | title = Šervānšāhs | last = Bosworth | first = C. E. | url = https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/servansahs | editor-last = | editor-first =  | editor-link = | encyclopedia  = Encyclopaedia Iranica | pages = | location = | publisher = | year = 2011 | isbn = }}
* {{Cambridge History of Iran|volume=4|last=Madelung|first=Wilferd|author-link= Wilferd Madelung|chapter=Minor dynasties of northern Iran|pages=198–250}}
* {{cite book | last=Minorsky | first=Vladimir | author-link = Vladimir Minorsky | title = A History of Sharvān and Darband in the 10th-11th Centuries | year=1958 | publisher=W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd. | location=Cambridge }}
* {{The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia}}

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