Fadlun ibn Fadl, or Fadl III was the last ruler of the Kurdish

Shaddadids The Shaddadids were a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty. who ruled in various parts of Armenia and Arran from 951 to 1199 AD. They were established in Dvin. Through their long tenure in Armenia, they often intermarried with the Bagratuni royal famil ...

of Arran from

Ganja Ganja (, ; ) is one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for marijuana. Its usage in English dates to before 1689. Etymology ''Ganja'' is borrowed from Hindi/Urdu ( hi, गांजा, links=no, ur, , links=no, IPA: �aːɲd� ...

, which is in present-day

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. He ruled from 1073 to 1075, until the Seljuk Sultan Malik-Shah removed him from power,''The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World'', C.E. Bosworth, ''The Cambridge History of Iran:The Saljuq and Mongol Period'', Vol. 5, ed. J.A. Boyle, (Cambridge University Press, 1968), 95. giving him

Astarabad Gorgan ( fa, گرگان ; also romanized as ''Gorgān'', ''Gurgān'', and ''Gurgan''), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as ''Astarābād'', ''Asterabad'', and ''Esterābād''), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies appro ...

. The realm was then absorbed by the Great Seljuqs, placing

Sav-Tegin Savtegin ( d. 1084) was a prominent emir of the early Seljuk Empire, during the reigns of Tughril I, Alp Arslan, and Malik-Shah I. His full name in Arabic, as given by Münejjim Bāshī Ahmad Effendi, was 'Imād ad-Dawlah Sarhang Sāw Takīn. He ...

as governor of Ganja. Following the death of Sav-Tegin in 1085, Fadl instigated a revolt and gained possession of Ganja. Malik-Shah launched a campaign in 1086 and removed Fadl from power again. Ebn al-Aṯir mentions a Fadl then died in poverty in

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 ...

in 1091, but if it was him or his father is in doubt. A collateral line of Shaddadids, through

Manuchihr ibn Shavur Manuchihr ibn Shavur was a Shaddadid emir of Ani from 1072 to 1118, the first of the dynasty to rule this key city, formerly an Armenian royal capital. Manuchihr b. Shavur began his rule under the suzerainty of the Seljuk sultan Malikshah. Du ...

, continued to rule in

Ani Ani ( hy, Անի; grc-gre, Ἄνιον, ''Ánion''; la, Abnicum; tr, Ani) is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia. Between 961 and 1045, it was the capital of th ...

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