Rawadid dynasty

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Template:Short description Template:Pp Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Rawwadid, Ravvadid (also Revend or Revendi), or Banū Rawwād (Template:Langx) (900–1071)[1] was a Sunni Muslim KurdishTemplate:Sfn[2] dynasty, centered in the northwestern region of Adharbayjan (Azerbaijan) between the late 8th and early 13th centuries.Template:Sfn

Originally of Arab descent,[3] and later Kurdified or of full Kurdish descent. The Rawadids ruled Tabriz and northeastern Adharbayjan in the late 8th and early 9th centuries.Template:Sfn In the second half of the 10th century and much of the 11th century, these descendants controlled much of Adharbayjan as well as parts of Armenia.Template:Sfn

History

Origin

Several scholars (Bosworth, Kasravi, W. Madelung, D.McDowall) claim that the origin of the Rawadid dynasty was connected to the name of the tribal leader Rawad ibn Muthanna (ca. 200/815), who was the governor of Tabrīz,Template:Sfn whilst Hugh Kennedy suggest mystery around their origins and not a clear connection to Banu Rawwad and suggest their origins plausibly being linked to Rawaddis Hadhabani Kurds.[4]

The majority scholars hold that Rawadids were originally of Azdi Arab ancestry, arriving in the region in the mid 8th century, but they had become Kurdicized by the late 10th century (Kasravi, Bosworth, W. Madelung, J. Boris) and began to use Kurdish forms like Mamlan for Muhammad and Ahmadil for Ahmad as their names. The local poet Qatran Tabrizi (d. c. 465/1072), praised them for their Arab ancestry.[5]Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn[6]Template:Sfn[7][8] Rawwadid ruler Wahsudan bin Mamlan also acknowledged his mixed Arab and Iranian descent[9][10]

Rawadid emirate of Adharbayjan

According to Kasravi, Rawadids conquered the lands of the Musafirid ruler Ibrahim I ibn Marzuban I, in Adharbayjan in 979. Abu Mansur Wahsudan (1019-1054) is the best known Rawwadid ruler, and he is mentioned by Ibn Athir. According to Ahmad Kasravi, sixty panegyric qasidas of the poet Qatran Tabrizi (11th century) dedicated to Wahsudan have been preserved. After the Oghuz revolt against Mahmud Ghaznavi (998-1030) in Khorasan in 1028, about 2,000 Oghuz families fled to the West. Wahsudan protected and allowed some of them to settle in the territory of the Rawwadis.[11][12] He gave them land and made them vassals, intending to use them in the wars against the Byzantine Empire.[13] The regions of Tabriz, Maragha and the strongholds of Sahand mountain were in his possession. In 1029, he helped the Hadhbani Kurds in Maragha to defeat the invading Oghuz Turkish tribes.

According to Ibn Athir, Wahsudan formed a marriage alliance with the first group of Oghuz Turks reached Adharbayjan to act against his enemies. This alliance stimulated animosity of the Shaddadid ruler Abu’l-Ḥasan Laškari. Another group of Turks arrived in Adharbayjan in 1037–1038. After they looted Maragha, Wahsudan and his nephew Abu’l-Hayjā put aside their problems and joined forces against the Ghuzz Turks. Turks were dispelled to Rayy, Isfahan, and Hamadan. A group of Turks remained in Urmiya. Wahsudan invited their leaders to a dinner and slaughtered them in 1040–1041.Template:Sfn

Qatran mentioned about several battles between Wahsudan and a group of a Ghuzz reached Adharbayjan in 1041–1042. An intense battle in the desert of Sarāb resulted in the Rawwadids’ defeat on the Turks.Template:Sfn

After banishing the Oghuz, Wahsudan improved relations with Shaddadids and travelled in person to Ganja, center of Shaddadids.Template:Sfn

Wahsudan also sent an expedition to Ardabil under the command of his son Mamlan II. The ruler (sipahbod) of Moghan had to submit to the conqueror. Mamlan also built a fortress in Ardabil.[14]

A devastating earthquake in 1042-1043 destroyed much of Tabriz, its walls, houses, markets, and much of the Ravvadis' palace. Although Ibn al-'Asir said that 50,000 people died in Tabriz, Nasir Khosrow, who passed through Tabriz four years later gave the number of dead 40,000 and stated that the city was prospering at the times of his visit. Wahsudan himself was saved because he was in a garden outside the city.[15]

The Seljuks under Tughril conquered the principality in 1054 CE, and he defeated the prince of Tabriz Wahsudan ibn Mamlan and brought his son Abu Nasr Mamlan.[16] In 1071, when Alp Arslan returned from his campaign against the Byzantine Empire, he deposed Mamlan.Template:Sfn Wahsudan's successor, Ahmad bin Wahsudan, lord of Maragha, took part in Malik Shah's campaign against Syria in 1110 CE.[17] His full title was Ahmadil bin Ibrahim bin Wahsudan al-Rawwadi al-Kurdi.[18] Ahmadil fought again the crusaders during the First Crusade. Joscelin made a peace treaty with him during the siege of Tell Bashir (in present-day southern Turkey, south-east of Gaziantep). He was stabbed to death by the Ismaili assassins in 1117 in Baghdad. His descendants continued to rule Maragha and Tabriz as Atabakane Maragha until the Mongol invasion in 1227.[19][20]

Rawadid Rulers

  1. Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Rawadi (? – c. 953?)
  2. Abu'l-Hayja Husayn I (955–988)
  3. Abu'l-Hayja Mamlan I (988–1000)
  4. Abu Nasr Husayn II (1000–1025)
  5. Abu Mansur Wahsudan (1025–1058/9)
  6. Abu Nasr Mamlan II (1058/9–1070)
  7. Ahmadil ibn Ibrahim ibn Wahsudan (in Maragha)(c.1100-1116)

Burial Place

Imamzadeh Chaharmanar in Tabriz, is the burial place of Rawadid Rulers:

See also

References

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  6. ↑ W.B. Fisher et al., The Cambridge History of Iran, 778 pp., Cambridge University Press, 1968, Template:ISBN (p.32)
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  10. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". '' Al-Rawwad b. al-Muthanna al-Azdi, the ancestor of the Rawwadid dynasty, settled between al-Badhdh and Tabriz, gaining power in the latter.''
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  14. ↑ V. Minorsky, A Mongol Decree of 720/1320 to the Family of Shaykh Zahid, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1954, p. 524
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  16. ↑ P. Blaum, Diplomacy gone to seed: a history of Byzantine foreign relations, 1047-57 A.D., International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Jan. 2005, p. 15
  17. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (see under Turkish Conquest)
  18. ↑ The Supreme Muslim Council: Islam Under the British Mandate for Palestine by Uri M. Kupferschmid
  19. ↑ P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs (editors), Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition), "Marāg̲h̲a", Brill Online.
  20. ↑ Minorsky, La Domination des Dailamites, presented in a Conference of the Societé des Etudes Iraniennes, Paris, 28 May 1931. Also see Minorsky, Daylam in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1962, pp. 189–94

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Sources

External links

  1. Rawwadids, Encyclopaedia of Islam.
  2. A Chronology of World Political History (801 - 1000 C.E.)(see Rawwadid)
  3. List of Rawadid Rulers

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