Abū Kālījār al-Marzubān ibn Sulṭān ad-Dawlah

▪ Būyid ruler

also called  Muḥyīʾad-dīn 

born , May/June 1009, Basra, Iraq

died October 1048, Khannāb, near Kermān, Iran

      ruler of the Būyid dynasty from 1024, who for a brief spell reunited the Būyid territories in Iraq and Iran.

      When his father, Sulṭān ad-Dawlah, died in December 1023/January 1024, Abū Kālījār's succession to the sultan's Iranian possessions of Fārs and Khuzistan was challenged by his uncle Abū al-Fawāris, the ruler of Kerman, to the west. By 1028 Abū Kālījār was victorious and added Kerman to his domains. In the meantime (1027) he had attacked the Iraqi lands of another uncle, Jalāl ad-Dawlah, and had precipitated a civil war between the Iraqi and the Iranian branches of the Būyid family that lasted until 1037, when the two made peace. With the death of Jalāl ad-Dawlah in March 1044, Abū Kālījār was recognized as the Būyid ruler in Iraq.

      In the face of the growing challenge of the Seljuq Turks, Abū Kālījār fortified his capital Shīrāz, in Fārs (1044), and three years later entered into a marriage alliance with the Seljuq ruler Toghrïl Beg. In 1048, however, Toghrïl broke the alliance and attacked. Abū Kālījār died leading a force against the Seljuqs, who by 1062 completed their occupation of Būyid territories.

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