Ghazan II
| Ghazan Khan | |
|---|---|
| Il-Khan Chupanid puppet | |
| Reign | 1356 - 1357 |
| Predecessor | Anushirwan |
| Died | 1357 |
Ghazan II (Persian: غازان) was the last nominal ruler of the Ilkhanate.
Life[edit]
His existence is known through works of medieval authors and numismatics, but otherwise is unattested in history. He appears to have been a puppet of Malek Ashraf in 1356. According to Abū Bakr al-Qutbī al-Ahrī, author of Tarikh-i Uways, when Jani Beg demanded Malek Ashraf to submit in 1357, he replied: "He is the padishah of the ulus of Berke, he has nothing to do with the ulus of Abaqa, for here the ruler is Ghazan and the emirate is mine."[1][2] He was mentioned by Nur al-Din Azhdari in his Ghazan-nama, whose father Shams al-Din Muhammad served Ghazan II.[3]
His coins have been minted in Mardin (1356),[4] Qom (1357),[5] Soltaniyeh, Maragha, Ray,[6] Ani, Barda, Ganja, Khoy, Mamaqan, Nakhchivan, Sharur, Tabriz, Tbilisi, Urmia and others.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Wing, Patrick (2016). Jalayirids. [Place of publication not identified]: Edinburgh Univ Pr. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4744-0226-2. OCLC 948403225.
- ^ Abū Bakr al-Qutbī al-Ahrǐ (1954). Ta'rikh-i Shaikh Uwais (History of Shaikh Uwais); an important source for the history of Adharbaijan in the fourteenth century. 'S-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co. p. 77. OCLC 83888707.
- ^ Jafari-Mazhab, Mohsen (2011-08-23). "The Last Ilkhanid Ruler". Historical Sciences Studies. 3 (1): 25–34. ISSN 2251-9254.
- ^ "Silver dirham of Ghazan II, Ma'din, 757 H. 1922.216.381". numismatics.org. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
- ^ "ILKHAN: Ghazan II, 1356-1357, AR 6 dirhams (2.03g), Qumm, DM. VF". Stephen Album Rare Coins. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
- ^ "Ghazan II coins". tokakte.dk. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
- ^ Akopyan, Alexander V.; Mosanef, Farbod (2015). "Between Jūjīds and Jalāyirids: the Coinage of the Chopānids, Akhījūq and their Contemporaries, 754–759/1353–1358". Der Islam. 92 (1). doi:10.1515/islam-2015-0008. ISSN 1613-0928.