Dabuyid dynasty

Dabuyid dynasty
642–760
The Dabuyid dynasty around its greatest extent under Farrukhan the Great
The Dabuyid dynasty around its greatest extent under Farrukhan the Great
CapitalFuman (660–760)[1]
Common languagesMiddle Persian, Caspian languages, Tabari
Religion
Zoroastrianism
GovernmentMonarchy
Ispahbadh 
• 640-660
Gil Gavbara (first)
• 740/41-759/60
Khurshid (last)
Historical eraMiddle Ages
642
• Abbasid conquest
760
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Sassanid Empire
Abbasid Caliphate
Bavand dynasty
Baduspanids
Qarinvand dynasty
Today part ofAzerbaijan
Iran
Turkmenistan

The Dabuyid dynasty, or Gaubarid dynasty, was a Zoroastrian[2] Iranian dynasty that started in the first half of the 7th century as an independent group of rulers that ruled over Tabaristan and parts of western Khorasan.[3] Dabuyid rule over Tabaristan and Khorasan lasted from around 642 to the Abbasid conquest in 760.

  1. ^ Bazin, Marcel (2000). "FŪMAN". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, Fasc. 3. pp. 227–228.
  2. ^ C.E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, (Columbia University Press, 1996), 162; "Hence in 758 the caliph undertook the definitive conquest of Tabaristan, successfully drove out Khurshid II and ended the dynasty of the Dabuyids (who, as Zoroastrians, had never accepted Islam)".
  3. ^ DABUYIDS, W. Madelung, Encyclopaedia Iranica