Rukn al-Dīn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad Khurshāh | |
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| ركن الدين الحسن بن محمد خورشاه | |
| Born | 627 AH/1230 AD |
| Died | 654 AH/1256 AD |
| Term | 1255–1256 AD |
| Predecessor | Ala al-Din Muhammad III |
| Successor | Shams al-Din Muhammad |
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Rukn al-Dīn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad Khurshāh (or Khwarshāh) ([ركن الدين الحسن بن محمد خورشاه] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |links= (help)) (1230–1256) was the son of ‘Alā’ ad-Dīn Muḥammad III and the 27th Isma'ili Imam. He was also the fifth and final Nizari Isma'ili Imam who ruled at Alamut. The Imam was the eldest son of Imam ʿAla al-Din Muhammad and succeeded his murdered father to the Imamate in 1255. Imam Rukn al-Din engaged in a long series of negotiations with the invading Mongols, and under whose leadership Alamut Castle was surrendered to the Mongol Empire marking the end of the Nizari state in Persia. [1]
- ^ Daftary, Farhad. Mediaeval Ismaʿili history and thought. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 323.