Sharwin II (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

: شروین), was the tenth ruler of the

Bavand dynasty The Bavand dynasty () (also spelled Bavend), or simply the Bavandids, was an Iranian dynasty that ruled in parts of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province) in what is now northern Iran from 651 until 1349, alternating between outright inde ...

from 896 to 930. In 896, Sharwin's father,

Rustam I Rustam I ( fa, رستم), was the ninth ruler of the Bavand dynasty from 867 to 896. He was the successor and son (or grandson) of Qarin I. Biography Like his father, Rustam opposed the Zaydi rulers of Tabaristan, and in 879, revolted against t ...

, was tortured to death by

Rafi ibn Harthama Rāfi‘ ibn Harthama () (died 896) was a mercenary soldier who in the turmoils of the late 9th century became ruler of Khurasan from 882 to 892. Biography Rafi was originally in the service of the Tahirids,Bosworth (1995), p. 385 which contro ...

, who then divided Rustam's domains in

Tabaristan Tabaristan or Tabarestan ( fa, طبرستان, Ṭabarestān, or mzn, تبرستون, Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian: , ''Tapur(i)stān''), was the name applied to a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. ...

with

Zaydid Alid dynasties of northern Iran or Alavids (). In the 9th–14th centuries, the northern Iranian regions of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan, sandwiched between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz range, came under the rule of a number of Arab Alid dyn ...

Muhammad ibn Zayd Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismaʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd (died 3 October 900), also known as ''al-Dāʿī al-Ṣaghīr'' ("the Younger Missionary"), was an Alid who succeeded his brother, Hasan ("the Elder Missi ...

. Sharwin thus succeeded Rustam I as the head of the Bavand family. In 900, Sharwin, along with the Karenid ruler Shahriyar ibn Baduspan, aided the

Samanids People Samanid Samanid Samanid The Samanid Empire ( fa, سامانیان, Sāmāniyān) also known as the Samanian Empire, Samanid dynasty, Samanid amirate, or simply as the Samanids) was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, of Iranian dehqan orig ...

in conquering Tabaristan. After the successful Samanid conquest, Sharwin's domains were restored to him. However, in 914,

Hasan al-Utrush Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ashraf ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn (Medina, c. 844 – Amul, January/February 917), better known as al-Ḥasan al-Uṭrūsh ( ar, الحسن الأطروش, , Hasan th ...

managed to re-establish Zaydid control over Tabaristan, and forced Sharwin accept the Zaydids as his overlord and pay tribute to them.Strothmann (1986), p. 254Madelung (1975), p. 209 Sharwin seems to have later aided Makan ibn Kaki in his campaign to conquer

Khorasan Khorasan may refer to: * Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan * Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...

from the

in 930, where Sharwin shortly died, and was succeeded by his son

Shahriyar II Shahriyar II (Persian: شهریار) was the eleventh ruler of the Bavand dynasty from 930 to 964. He was the son and successor of Sharwin II. After the fall of the Zaydids of Tabaristan, Shahriyar II became involved in a power struggle between th ...

. Vushmgir, who would become the overlord of Tabaristan in 935, married Sharwin's daughter after the latter's death.Madelung (1984), pp. 747–753

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