Šwānkāra شوانکارە | |||||||||||
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| 1030–1424 | |||||||||||
 Map of Iran during Anarchy Era 1328-1384 AD. Shabankara in purple. | |||||||||||
| Capital | Ij (Ig) | ||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy (princely confederation) | ||||||||||
| Amir/Malik | |||||||||||
• 1030-1078 | Fadluya | ||||||||||
• c.1310 (?)-1355 | Ardashir | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1030 | ||||||||||
• Shabankara overthrown by Timurids | 1424 | ||||||||||
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Shabankara or Shwankara[1] (Persian: شبانکاره, Kurdish: شوانکارە; lit. 'shepherd')[2] was an Iranian tribe. They claimed descent from the mythical Iranian king Manuchehr and from the founder of the Sasanian Empire, Ardashir I. They had been deported to eastern Fars from Isfahan and Syria by the Buyid Shahanshah 'Adud al-Dawla (r. 949–983).[2] The dynasty's capital was Ij (Ig) and was divided in six districts: Zarkān, Iṣṭabānān, Burk-Tārum-K̲h̲ayra, Nayriz, Kurm-Rūnīz-Lār, and Darabjird.[3] The tribe had the following subdivisions: Ismāʿīlī, the Rāmānī, the Karzuwī, the Masʿūdī and the S̲h̲akānī who were all herders and warriors.[3]
There is a contemporary Kurdish tribe named Shabankara in Kermanshah Province.[4] Abu Tahir ibn Muhammad, a descendant from the Shabankara went on to found the Kurdish Hazaraspid dynasty in the 12th century.[5]
- ^ Brill, E. J. (1993). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936. S - Ṭaiba. BRILL. p. 240. ISBN 978-90-04-09793-3.
- ^ a b Potts 2014, p. 166.
- ^ a b Büchner 2012.
- ^ Ateş 2013, p. 162.
- ^ Luzac & Co 1986, p. 336-337.