Abu Mansur Khusrau Firuz ( fa, ابو منصور خسرو فیروز), better known by his ''
laqab
Arabic language
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'' of Al-Malik al-Aziz (
Arabic
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: الملك العزيز, "the strong king"), was a
Buyid
The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Islam, Shia Iranian peoples, Iranian dynasty of Daylamites, Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central ...
prince who served as the governor of
Wasit
Wasit ( ar, وَاسِط, Wāsiṭ, syr, ܘܐܣܛ) is an ancient city in Wasit Governorate, south east of Kut in eastern Iraq.
History
The city was built by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf in c. 702 CE on the west bank of the Tigris across from the hi ...
. He was the son of
Jalal al-Dawla
Abu Tahir Firuz Khusrau ( fa, ابوطاهر فیروزخسرو), better known by his ''laqab'' of Jalal al-Dawla (993 or 994 – March 1044), was the Buyid amir of Iraq (1027–1044). He was the son of Baha' al-Dawla.
Biography
In 1012 Jalal A ...
.
During his father's lifetime, Al-Malik al-Aziz served as the governor of
Wasit
Wasit ( ar, وَاسِط, Wāsiṭ, syr, ܘܐܣܛ) is an ancient city in Wasit Governorate, south east of Kut in eastern Iraq.
History
The city was built by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf in c. 702 CE on the west bank of the Tigris across from the hi ...
, and was considered his heir. However, when his father died in 1044,
Abu Kalijar, the Buyid ruler of
Fars and
Kerman, invaded
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
, and captured
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
. Al-Maik al-Aziz managed to flee from Baghdad, and take refuge with the
Mazyadids
The Mazyadids, named after their ancestor Mazyad al-Shaybani (also Shaybanids after their original tribe of Shayban or Yazidids after Mazyad's son Yazid), was an Arab family what came to rule over the region of Shirvan (in Azerbaijan) in the mid ...
, and then with the
Uqaylids
The Uqaylid dynasty () was a Shia Arab dynasty with several lines that ruled in various parts of Al-Jazira, northern Syria and Iraq in the late tenth and eleventh centuries. The main line, centered in Mosul, ruled from 990 to 1096.
History
Rise ...
. He also made some fruitless attempts to capture Iraq and regain his throne. He later died in 1049 at
Mayyafariqin.
References
* {{cite book , title = The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs , year = 1975 , publisher = Cambridge University Press , location = Cambridge , editor-last = Frye , editor-first = R. N. , last = Bosworth , first = C. E. , author-link = C. E. Bosworth , chapter = Iran under the Buyids , pages = 250–305 , isbn = 0-521-20093-8 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hvx9jq_2L3EC&q=the+cambridge+history+of+iran+4
Buyid princes
1049 deaths
11th-century Iranian people
Heirs apparent who never acceded
Year of birth missing