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The deposition of the Shirvanshah and the victory over the Georgians (622 AH)

خلع شروان شاه والظفر بالكرج

1225 CE · 622 AH

622: the Shirvanshah's own son deposed his tyrannical father, who bought Georgian restoration at the price of half the kingdom; the son's thousand horsemen met three thousand Georgians and routed them — whereupon the Georgian commanders dismissed the old shah: 'we met nothing good on your account — do not stay in our lands'. The son restored the people's confiscated estates and ruled well 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Persia & Central Asia
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Civil wars and revolts

Overview

In 622 AH the son of the Shirvanshah rose against his father, took the kingdom from him and drove him out of the country. Ibn al-Athir describes the father as ill-conducted, much given to corruption and injustice, and preying on the property of his subjects. 1

Refuge with the Georgians

The deposed father went to the Georgians and agreed with them that they should send an army with him to restore him to his kingdom in exchange for half the land. The son told his army that if his father prevailed he would spare none of them. 1

The encounter

The son went out with about a thousand horsemen and met the Georgians with three thousand fighters. The men of Shirvan held firm, the Georgians were routed, and many were killed and many captured. 1

The outcome

The Georgian commanders told the deposed king that they had gained nothing by him, and asked him not to stay in their land. The son settled in the kingdom and returned to the people their properties and what had been confiscated. Ibn al-Athir says they rejoiced at his rule. 1

People and things also explored

Abu Muslim Enters Marw and His Partisans Fall upon Mudar· The Akhlat fitna and massacre (604 AH)· Ali declines to keep Muawiya in office· Letters between Ali and Muawiya after the Camel· Ali moves the capital to Kufa· Ali refuses to lead prayer while the caliph is besieged· The breach of the Granada terms and the revolt of the Alpujarras· Amr ibn Ma'dikarib's apostasy after the Prophet's death

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 446-447
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Abu Muslim Enters Marw and His Partisans Fall upon Mudar

In 130 Abu Muslim entered the wall of Marw and took up residence in the governor's house on Thursday, 9 Jumada I. The cause was that Sulayman ibn Kathir objected to Ali ibn al-Kirmani's reconciliation with Nasr ibn Sayyar: 'Are you not ashamed to make peace with Nasr, when he killed your men and your companions only yesterday?' Ali ibn al-Kirmani was seized by anger, reversed his position, and the truce among the Arabs broke. Nasr ibn Sayyar sent to Abu Muslim asking him to join Mudar, and Rabi'a and Qahtan sent the same request. Abu Muslim ordered that envoys of both sides come before him to choose between them, and told the Shi'a to choose Rabi'a and Qahtan, since authority lay with Mudar, who were Marwan's agents and the killers of Yahya ibn Zayd. When his letter was read to the seventy assembled, Mazid ibn Shaqiq al-Sulami stood and said: 'Mudar are the killers of the Family of the Prophet and helpers of the Umayyads and partisans of Marwan al-Ja'di; our blood is on their necks and our wealth in their hands, and Nasr ibn Sayyar, Marwan's governor in Khurasan, has the khutba given for him from his pulpit and calls him amir al-mu'minin; we are innocent of that before God.' The seventy agreed with him; he rose, and humiliation and dejection came upon Mudar, while Ali ibn al-Kirmani and his companions returned glad and victorious. Abu Muslim had stayed at Alin for twenty-nine days, then moved on to al-Makhwan, stayed three months at Khunda, and then entered the wall of Marw.