Adud al-Dawla Qubad was the
Baduspanid
The Baduspanids or Badusbanids ( fa, پادوسبانیان, Pâdusbâniân), were a local Iranian dynasty of Tabaristan which ruled over Ruyan/Rustamdar. The dynasty was established in 665, and with 933 years of rule as the longest dynasty in ...
ruler (''
ustandar'') of
Rustamdar
Ruyan ( fa, رویان), later known as Rustamdar (), was the name of a mountainous district that encompassed the western part of Tabaristan/ Mazandaran, a region on the Caspian coast of northern Iran.
In Iranian mythology, Ruyan appears as one ...
from 1379 to 1381.
The son and successor of
Fakhr al-Dawla Shah-Ghazi Fakhr al-Dawla Shah-Ghazi was the Baduspanid ruler (''ustandar'') of Rustamdar from 1360 to 1379. He is notable for sponsoring the composition of the history chronicle ''Tarikh-i Ruyan'' by Awliya Allah Amuli. He died in 1379 and was succeeded by hi ...
, Qubad was soon after his accession accused by the
Mar'ashis of being uncooperative and mistreating the
dervishes of their order. Intenting to incorporate Rustamdar into their domains, the Mar'ashi
Sayyid Fakhr al-Din defeated Qubad and seized the coastal parts of Rustamdar in 1380.
A year later (1381), a Mar'ashi force defeated and killed Qubad at a battle at Laktor. The fortress of
Kojur
Kojur ( fa, كوجور, also Romanized as Kujur; also known as Baladeh-ye Kujūr, Kujūr, Dehe Kujūr) is a city in Tavabe-e Kojur Rural District, Kojur District, Nowshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was ...
was conquered and made the permanent residence of Fakhr al-Din; the Mar'ashis were now the masters of all of
Mazandaran. The Baduspanids were temporarily ousted from power, until almost a decade later in 1390, when the Mar'ashis installed
Sa'd al-Dawla Tus on the Baduspanid throne in Rustamdar to challenge the
Afrasiyabid prince
Iskandar-i Shaykhi who accompanied the
Turco-Mongol ruler
Timur (), who intended to conquer
Mazandaran.
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14th-century Baduspanid rulers
1381 deaths
Year of birth unknown