Anushirwan Khan
SuccessionIl-Khan
Chupanid puppet
PredecessorSuleiman Khan
SuccessorGhazan II
Reign1344–1357

Anushirwan Khan (Persian: انوشیروان خان, Anūshīrvān Khān) occupied the Ilkhanid throne in Arran from 1344 until his death in 1357.[1] He was a puppet of the Chobanid ruler Malek Ashraf and possessed no power of his own. He is notable for being the last of the Ilkhan dynasty to have coins struck in his name.[2]

Anushirwan's origins are obscure. One account suggests that Malek Ashraf's wardrobe keeper, a certain Nushirvan, was raised to the throne and given the name Anushirvan, after the famous Sasanian king Khosrow I Anushirvan. The Chobanids struck coins in his name until 1357.[3]

References

  1. ^ Morby, John (18 September 2014). "Persia, Il-Khans of". Dynasties of the World. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-178007-3.
  2. ^ JACKSON, PETER & LOCKHART, LAURENCE (1986). The Cambridge history of Iran. Vol. 6: The Timurid and Safavid periods. Cambridge, UK: University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-521-20094-6.
  3. ^ Ömer Diler, Ilkhans: Coinage of the Persian Mongols (Istanbul 2006), pp. 539-40.

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