Abu Kalijar

Gold coin from the time of Abu Kalidjar

Abu Kalidschar al-Marzuban ibn Sultan ad-Daula ( Persian ابوکالیجار مرزبان پسر سلطان‌الدوله دیلمی; born in May / June 1009 in Basra ; died October 1048 in Khannab near Kerman ), also called Muhyi ad-Din , was a ruler (1024-1048) from the Buyid dynasty , who succeeded for a short time in uniting the Buyid territories in what is now Iraq and Iran .

Life

After the death of his father Sultan ad-Daula in early 1024, there were throne disputes with his uncle Abu al-Fawaris , who ruled in Kirman and now claimed the territories of Fars and Chuzistan . After his death in 1028, Abu Kalidschar took control of Kirman. A year earlier he had attacked the Iraqi territories of another uncle, Jalal ad-Daula , and sparked a civil war between the Iraqi and Iranian branches of the Buyids that lasted until the peace treaty in 1037. With the death of Jalal ad-Daula in March 1044, Abu Kalidjar was recognized as the Buyid ruler in Iraq.

Faced with the growing threat from the Seljuk Turks, Abu Kalidjar fortified his capital, Shiraz, in Fars, and in 1047 entered into a marriage alliance with the Seljuk ruler Tughrul Beg . A year later, however, Tughrul broke that alliance and attacked. Abu Kalidjar died in a counterattack on the Seljuks, who had completed their occupation of the Buyid territories by 1062.

literature

• C. Edmund Bosworth: ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MARZBĀN, ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica . Volume Vol. VIII, Fasc. 4, status: 2011 (English, including references)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Abū Kālījār al-Marzubān ibn Sulṭān ad-Dawlah. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Accessed July 8, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Sultan ad-Daula	Emir of Fars 1024-1048	Abu Mansur Fulad Sutun
Qawam ad-Daula	Emir of Kirman 1028-1048	Seljuks
Jalal ad-Daula	Emir of Iraq 1044-1048	Al-Malik al-Rahim