Ma'munids
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ĀL-E MAʾMŪN (or Maʾmunids) (Persian: مأمونیان), were an independent dynasty of Iranian rulers[1] in Chorasmia[2]. Their reign was short-lived (995 - 1017 A.D.) and were in turn replaced by the expansionist Ghaznavids.
[edit] Rulers and Kingdom
The ancient Iranian kingdom of Khwarazm had been ruled until 995 by the old established line of Afrighids of Kath[2]. Khwarazm, or the classical Chorasmia, was the well irrigated and rich agricultural region of lower Oxus. Surrounded by all sides by steppe land and desert, it was geographically isolated from other areas of civilization. This isolation allowed it to maintain a separate distinctive Iranian language and culture [2].
The Ma'munids replaced the ancient line of Afrighid Khwarazmshahs. The name of the rulers of this were:
1. Abū ʿAlī Maʾmūn I b. Moḥammad 385/995
2. Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī 387/997
3. Abu’l-ʿAbbās Maʾmūn ca. 399/1008-09
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4. Abu’l-Ḥāreṯ Moḥammad 407-08/1017
They were in turn displaced by the Ghaznavids.
[edit] Further reading
- "ĀL-E MAʾMŪN (or Maʾmunids)" in Encyclopedia Iranica by C.E. Bosworth [2]
- Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, Columbia University, 1996.
