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Shirvanshah Ali II
Abu Mansur Ali () was twelfth Shah of Shirvan, ruling from 1034 to 1043. Reign Abu Mansur murdered his elder brother Manuchihr I of Shirvan, Manuchihr I with aid of his wife and rose to throne, also marrying her in January 1035. He continued to push traditional claims of Shirvanian suzerainty over Emirate of Derbent throughout his reign. Just a few months later on 9 February 1035, Abd al-Malik II of Derbent, Abd al-Malik ibn Mansur, emir of Derbent was ousted by local nobility who submitted to Ali. Ali in turn entrusted his vizier Mansur b. Musaddid to rule the town. However these gains were lost just in April after Abd al-Malik invaded the town. In order to seal the peace with Shirvan, he aggreed to marry Ali's sister Shamkuya. The news of alliance raised disturbance in Derbent, whose nobility attacked Abd al-Malik's vizier Saqlab b. Muhammad's house and forced the emir to flee to Shirvan. Ali II in turn restored his brother-in-law to his throne. Both Ali and Abd al-Malik died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shah
Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of Persianate societies, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Kazakh Khanate, the Khanate of Bukhara, the Emirate of Bukhara, the Mughal Empire, the Bengal Sultanate, historical Afghan dynasties, and among Gurkhas. Rather than regarding himself as simply a king of the concurrent dynasty (i.e. European-style monarchies), each Iranian ruler regarded himself as the Shahanshah ( fa, شاهنشاه, translit=Šâhanšâh, label=none, ) or Padishah ( fa, پادشاه, translit=Pâdešâh, label=none, ) in the sense of a continuation of the original Persian Empire. Etymology The word descends from Old Persian ''xšāyaθiya'' "king", which used to be considered a borrowing from Median, as it was compared to Avestan ''xšaθra-'', "power" and " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
