KERMAN v. HISTORY FROM THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST TO THE COMING OF THE MONGOLS

 

KERMAN

v. HISTORY FROM THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST TO THE COMING OF THE MONGOLS

The Armenian geography written in the second half of the 8th century and traditionally attributed to Moses of Khoren (see MOVSĒS XORENAC‘I) places Kerman in the southern quarter of the Sasanian empire (Markwart, pp. 30-31). Its chief town in the author’s time was Sirjān, as it had been in Sasanian times, and which continued to be its capital till the 4th/10th century (see below). Early Muslim geographers considered the greater part of Kerman province, that is, the regions adjoining the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, and the inland parts towards the Sistan and Dašt-e Lut desert, to be in the garmsir or hot climatic zone; but they regarded the mountainous interior, home of predatory peoples like the Kufeč (or Kofejān; see QOFṢ) “mountain folk” or Pārečān/Bārezān “inhabitants of the Jabal Bārez” (see below) as coming within the sardsir or cold zone (Ḥodud al-ʿālam, pp. 126-28, tr., pp. 123-25, comm., pp. 373-76; Eṣṭaḵri, pp. 158-60; Ebn Ḥawqal, pp. 305-7, tr., II, pp. 301-2; Waziri Kermāni, pp. 113-14; see Afżal-al-Din Kermāni, 1932, pp. 51 ff., on the excellences and specialties [fażāʾel] of Kerman). In Afżal-al-Din Kermāni’s time (d. ca. 1218), the desert zone seems to have been a smaller part of the province as a whole than in more recent times, with areas that had been forested; Ḥamd-Allāh Mostawfi (p. 140; tr., p. 139) mentions that predatory beasts roamed the forests at the site of what became the essentially Arab creation of Jiroft (see JIROFT i. GEOGRAPHY) in the first decades of Islam. Regarding administrative divisions, the later 4th/10th century Moqaddasi, a near-contemporary of the unknown author of the Ḥodud al-ʿālam, divides the province into five districts (kura), each named after its chief town: Bardsir (or Bardasir/Bardašir), Sirjān, Bam, Narmāsir (Narmāšir), and Jiroft (pp. 460-66); however, Ebn Rosta (p. 106) has given this list with the additional district of Hormuz (cf. Le Strange, pp. 299-300; Barthold, 1984, pp. 136-42, on the cities of Kerman in this early period). Makrān, to the east of Kerman (the southern part of modern Baluchistan), was generally considered as a separate province.

At the time of the first Arab raids into Kerman during ʿOmar’s caliphate (r. 13-23/634-44), Kerman was governed by a marzbān whose name is not recorded (Balāḏori, pp. 315, 391; cf. Markwart, p. 31). There may have been some penetration of nomadic Arabs into Kerman in pre-Islamic times, if the report that the Sasanian ruler Šāpur II Ḏu’l-Aktāf settled Arab tribesmen in Ahvāz, Tawwaj, and Kerman is accurate (Ṭabari, I, p. 845, tr., V, p. 65). During the caliphate of ʿOmar, Abu Musā Ašʿari, the governor of Basra, sent Rabiʿ b. Ziād against Kerman. He conquered Sirjān and made a peace treaty with the people of Bam, while, at the same time, the governor of Bahrain, ʿOṯmān b. Abi’l-ʿĀṣ Ṯaqafi, mounted another attack and killed the marzbān of Kerman on the island Abarkāvān (present-day Qešm) in the Persian Gulf. Shortly afterwards, in 29/649-50, the last Sasanian king, Yazdegerd III, fled through Kerman, pursued by an Arab army that perished in the snows of the mountains, allowing the king to reach Khorasan, where, however, he was eventually killed (Balāḏori, pp. 315-16, 391; Ṭabari, I, pp. 2863, tr., XV, p. 69).

The details of these first Arab probes into Kerman are unclear; Yaʿqubi (p. 296, tr. Wiet, p. 99) records one by ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān b. Samora during ʿOtmān’s caliphate, which led to the local ruler offering an annual tribute of two million dirhams plus 2,000 slaves. The difficult terrain clearly made the conquest an arduous one, and the process of conversion to Islam of the province’s population a protracted one. A Zoroastrian community persisted in the town of Bardsir (Kerman), although in decreasing numbers, until the 19th century (Lambton, p. 157). Many of those clinging to their ancestral Zoroastrian faith fled for refuge in the early Islamic centuries to the mountain areas like the Jabal Bārez (cf. Eṣṭaḵri, p. 164; Ebn Ḥawqal, p. 310, tr., p. 305).

The province likewise provided asylum for the rebel againstthe Omayyads, ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān b. Ašʿaṯ, after he fled towardsSistan and Zābolestān after his defeat in Iraq in 82/701 (Ṭabari, II, pp.1101-102; tr., XXIII, p. 49), but above all it became a center for the extremist Kharijite group of the Azāreqa (see KHARIJITES IN PERSIA). Their leader, Qaṭari b. Fojāʾa, was pursued eastwards from Iraq and Ahvāz byMohallab b. Abi Ṣofra, but he held out for a long time in Kerman,with his center at Jiroft (where in 75/694he minted dirhams, styling himself amir al-moʾmenin;see Gaube, pp. 72-73, 106; Dinavari, pp. 275, 277, 304; Ṭabari,II, pp. 1003, 1017-18, tr., XXII, pp. 150, 161-62).

The Omayyads regained control of the province and held it until the ʿAbbasid Revolution. Dirhams of Arab-Sasanian pattern were minted at Kerman from the year 62/681-82(these acknowledging the anti-caliph ʿAbd-Allāh b. Zobayr) onwards. Post-reform dirhams were minted by the Omayyad governors from 90/709and continued to be issued substantially till 103/​721-22 and sporadically later (Walker, I, pp. cxxxviii, 30 ff., II, pp. lxxxvii, 171-73). In 128-29/745-46, the ʿAlid pretender ʿAbd-Allāh b. Moʿawia temporarily achieved power in Fārs and Kerman, but the Omayyad governor Ebn Hobayra’s commander ʿĀmer b. Żobāraregained control, and in 131/​748-49an Omayyad army set out from Kerman against the ʿAbbasid general Qaḥṭaba b. Ḥomayd, who was advancing from Khorasan on Ray, but it was defeated near Isfahan(Ṭabari, II, pp. 1947-48; III, pp. 4-5; tr., XXVII, pp. 59, 126-27).

In early ʿAbbasid times, governors were specially appointed for Kerman, but under the Taherids (r. 205-59/821-73), Kerman was regarded as an administrative dependency of Khorasan (cf. Ṭabari, III, p. 1698; tr., XXXV,p. 156). In practice, communications across the mountains and deserts separating Kerman from Sistan and Khorasan were difficult, and this meant that Kerman was linked more closely economically and commercially with the province of Fārs to its west. Ebn al-Balḵi (pp. 170-71) gives the figure 2,600,000 dinars for the total tax revenues of Fārs,Kerman, and Oman in the year 200/​815-16; new registers had to be compiledat this time, because the former ones had been destroyed in the civilwar between al-Amin and al-Maʾmun (r. 198-201/​813-17). However, the greater part of this sum must have appertained to the very rich province of Fārs. Like Khorasan and Sistan, Kerman was much affected by the prolongedrevolt of the Kharijite Ḥamza b. Āḏarak in the east during the caliphates of Hārun al-Rašid (r. 170-93/786-809) and al-Maʾmun, and it seems that he wasable to secure support from older Kharijite groups which had persisted in Kerman since Omayyad times (see Sadighi, pp. 54-56; Tāriḵ-e Sistān, pp. 162-69; tr., pp. 128-35; see also KHARIJITES IN PERSIA). There were, in fact, Kharijites in Kerman for at least a century and a half after Ḥamza’stime; Moqaddasi (p. 469) mentions that the Kharijites of Bam had aseparate congregational mosque of their own, where they kept thecommunity’s treasury.

In the mid-3rd/9th century, Kerman and Fārs were incorporated into the vast military empire assembled by the Saffarid Yaʿqub b. Layṯ, who in 255/​869 expandedwestwards from the Sistan heartland into Kerman and Fārs. These became his base for further expansion into Ahvāz and Iraq, and were retained by the Saffarids or their commanders until the time of the fifth Saffarid amir, Moḥammad b. ʿAli b. Layṯ (298/​910-11; Tāriḵ-e Sistān, pp. 213-14, tr. pp. 169-70; seeBosworth, 1994, pp. 135, 142 ff.).The local historian of Kerman, Afżal-al-Din Kermāni (1932, pp. 65-66), records that Yaʿqub quelled a revolt ofthe people of Jiroft, who had been aided by the Kufeč of the Jabal Bārez. It may have been as a result of Saffarid operations against these Kufeč that this mountain region,long a stronghold of Zoroastrianism, first became Islamized (Bosworth, 1976, p. 12).

Kerman was restored only briefly to caliphate control, for in 320/​932 it fell substantially under the authority of a local commander of the Samanids, Moḥammad b. Elyās (see ĀL-E ELYĀS). At the outset therewas a confused period of fighting between him, the Buyid amir Moʿezz-aI-Dawla, who was sent from Fārs by his brother, the later ʿEmād-al-Dawla, and the Samanid general Moḥammad b. Simjur, who was attempting to re-assert Samanid suzerainty; he eventually triumphed and reigned for some thirty years. From his capital Bardsir/Govāšir (the modern city of Kerman, henceforth the capital of the province), Moḥammad b. Elyās ruled in effect as an independent ruler, securing confirmation of his authority directly from the ʿAbbasid caliph, whilst giving a nominal allegiance to the Samanids. He did much charitable building work within the province, but seems to have derived much of his finances from depredations on caravans crossing Kerman, in a tacit alliance with the predatory mountain peoples of the province, the Kufeč and Baluch (see below). Afżal-al-Din Kermāni (1932, pp. 66-67) flatly describes Moḥammad b. Elyās as a plundering ʿayyār. Only under his weaker, squabbling sons did this petty amirate collapse (see in general,Bosworth, 1971). The forceful Buyid amir, ʿAżod-al-Dawla, invaded Kerman in 357/​968 and established there adominion that endured for eighty years, normally as part ofthe southern Buyid amirate based on Fārs and extending as far as Oman, until the advent of the Saljuqs. ʿAżod-al-Dawla followed the example of Yaʿqub b. Layṯ a century before him, launching two attacks on the Kufeč and Baluch in 360-61/970-72. He slaughtered many of them, deported the Baluch from the mountains, and settled peasants and cultivators in their place; he also penetrated to the Persian Gulf coast at Tizand Makrān and established Islam there (Ebn al-Aṯir, VIII, pp. 609, 613-14; Bosworth, 1976, pp. 15-16).

Kerman’s prosperity in both the Buyid and the succeeding Saljuq periods stemmed from its position across trade routes bringing, among other things, the produce of the Indian Ocean shorelands into the Persian lands and beyond. According to Ebn al-Balḵi (p. 172), in ʿAżod-al-Dawla’s time the tax revenue of Fārs, Kerman, and Oman amounted to 3,346,000 dinars, to which Kerman province, the port of Tiz on the Persian Makrān coast, and the coastal districts of Fārs contributed 750,000 dinars. Tiz was, in fact, especially important as a port of entry, and Afżal-al-DinKermāni (1932, pp. 70-71) describes how the rulers of Kerman derived much revenue from port dues and the taxes on merchants, who came from as far afield as East Africa and India.

Under ʿAżod-al-Dawla’s disunited and contending successors in Fārs, Buyid control over Kerman became relaxed. Ebn al-Aṯir (IX, pp. 82-84) records that in 382-84/992-94 the last Saffarid amir in Sistan, Ḵalafb. Aḥmad, attempted without success to invade Kerman, but this report may be a confusion with later events (see Bosworth, 1994, pp. 319-21). The Ghaznavids succeeded to the Saffarid heritage in Sistan, and, in 407/​1016-17, Sultan Maḥmud was tempted by the continued weakness of Buyid power in Kerman, involving a dispute between the amir Solṭān-al-Dawla in Fārs and his brother Qawām-al-Dawla, governor of Kerman, to intervene there, but failed to achieve anything (ʿOtbi, tr., pp. 360-62; Nāẓim, pp. 192-93; Bosworth, 1975, p. 176). Maḥmud’s son, Sultan Masʿud,was equally unsuccessful with his ambitions in Kerman. In424/​1033 a Ghaznavid force conquered it from Solṭān-al-Dawla’s son ʿEmād-al-Din Abu Kālijār, but the Ghaznavids’ financial exactions made the populace long for return of the Buyids, and in the next year an army under Abu Kālijār’s vizier, Bahrām b. Māfenna, ignominiously expelled to Khorasan the Ghaznavid garrison left in Kerman (Bosworth, 1975, p. 189).

The triumph of the Saljuqs and their Turkmens over the Ghaznavids at Dandānqān in 431/​1040 gave the Saljuqs control of Khorasan, and bands of Turkmens speedily extended into Sistan and across the Great Desert into Kerman. The capital Bardsir was in 434/​1042-43 attacked by either the Saljuq chief Ebrāhim Ināl or by Qara Arslān Qāvord b. Čaḡrï Beg Dāwud but was successfully defended by Abu Kalijār’s vizier Mohaḏḏeb-al-Dawla. However, shortly before the Buyid amir’s death in 440/​1048-49, Kerman passed definitively into Qāvord’s hands. There thus began some 140 years of Saljuq rule in Kerman, which became a virtually independent principality within the Great Saljuq empire and that only came to an end with the decline of the Great Saljuqs and the general rise to power in the eastern Persian lands of independent bands of Oghuz tribesmen. The history of these years is recorded in a local history of the province, the Tāriḵ-e Saljuqiān-e Kermān that was written in the opening years of the11th/17th century by Moḥammad b.Ebrāhim. Although separated from the events in question by five or six centuries, he used important earlier sources, including Afżal-al-Din Kermāni’s ʿEqd al-ʿolā, written for the Oghuz amir Malek Dinār (for him, see below) at the end of the period of Saljuq rule in Kerman, and others like this same author’s Badāʾeʿ al-azmān fi waqāʾeʿ Kermān, once considered lost but now partially reconstructed (see Houtsma, pp. 365-66; Storey, I, pp. 357-58; Storey-Bregel, II, pp.1055-60); fragments quoted by later authors were collected and published in a volume by Mehdi Bayāni.

Qāvord’s just rule in Kerman is praised by Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim. He allotted pasture grounds within the steppes to the Turkmens as their eqṭāʿ but kept them off the agricultural lands. He established a high standard of minting for his coins, erected lofty markers along 140 farsaḵs of the road in the Bam-Fahraj desert region to guide travelers, and constructed caravansaries and cisterns along roads. He led punitive expeditions against the troublesome Kufečs within Kerman and against the Šabānkāraʾi Kurds in Fārs, and also launched an attack across the Arabian Sea to Oman and conquered it from the local Kharijites, so that it remained an outpost of Saljuq power for nearly a century (Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim,pp. 4-12; Waziri Kermāni, 1985, I, pp. 346-47; Bosworth, 1968, pp. 58-59). As a senior member of the Saljuq family, Qāvord had, however, ambitions for the Great Saljuq throne and was unable to accept the succession of his nephew Malekšāh in 465/​1073. He rebelled, having considerable support among the Turkish commanders, who strongly adhered to the old Turkish idea of succession by seniority, but he was defeated in battle and killed in captivity (Mohammad b. Ebrahim, pp. 12-13; Rāvandi, pp. 126-27; Ebn al-Aṯir, X, pp. 78-79; Bosworth, 1968, pp. 88-89). The new sultan eventually restored Kerman to Qāvord’s foursons, the last of whom, Turānšāh (r. 477-90/1085-97), built a government house, dār al-emāra, in the suburb of Bardsir and secured the gratitude of the populace by removing the turbulent Turkish troops from the city to quarters outside of it, before dying in 490/​1097. His good reputation was such that his tomb later became a place of pilgrimage (Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim, pp. 20-21; Afżal-al-Din Kermāni, 1932, p. 73; Bosworth, 1964, pp. 89-90).

Among notable events during the rule of the Saljuq amirs of Kerman was an alleged attempt by the Ismaʿilis (see ISMAʿILISM) to secure a foothold in the province during the reign of Irānšāh b.Turānšāh (r. 490 to 494 or 495/​1097-1101), which does not however seem to have had any lasting result. Several of the amirs were patrons of learning and literature. Moḥammad b. Arslānšāh (r. 537-51/1142-56), who himself had a special interest in astronomy, provided bursaries for theologians and religious lawyers who could memorize the great collections of legal texts, and he constructed a library for the Turānšāh congregational mosque in the capital, Bardsir, which had 5,000 books on all the sciences (Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim, pp. 29, 32-33; Waziri Kermāni, 1985, I, pp. 360-62, 367-69). Kerman flourished greatly under the Saljuqs from its commercial role across the transit trade routes, and Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim mentions (p. 49) colonies of Rumi (Greek) and Indian merchants installed in a trading suburb, Qamādin, just outside Jiroft, with many warehouses there.

Eventually Saljuq rule in Kerman was seriously weakened by internecine strife within the ruling family when four sons of Ṭoḡrïlšāh b. Moḥammad (r. 551-65/1156-70) started vying for power following the death of their father. Two of them, Bahrāmšāh and Arslānšāh, with their centers of power in Jiroft and Bardsir, respectively, at one point in effect partitioned the sultanate. The various contenders for power invited in outsiders like the Salghurid Atabegs of Fārs (see ATĀBAKĀN-E FĀRS), the Great Saljuq Sultan Arslān b. Ṭoḡrïl, and the Oghuz ruler in Khorasan, Malek Moʾayyed, and the ensuing warfare reduced the Kerman population to misery and famine. The coup de grâce was given to Saljuq power in Kerman by a band of 5,000 Oghuz warriors and their dependents who, having been driven out of the Saraḵs region by the Khwarazmian Solṭānšāh b. Arslān, early in the reign of Turānšāh II (572-ca.579/​1177-ca. 1183) invaded Kerman from Khorasan. Their depredations, and the ravages of their herds, caused chaos and economic dislocation in Kerman; the trading suburb of Bardsir, once an international resort for merchants and caravans, was destroyed, food supplies were interrupted, and famine followed. Kerman now became a base for Oghuz raids as far as Fārs, Isfahan, and Sistan. The last Saljuq of Kerman, Moḥammadšāh, eventually gave up the unequal struggle against the Oghuz and retired to western Persia and then to the service of the Ghurids in Khorasan around 584/​1188, abandoning Kerman to the Oghuz leader Malek Dinār (Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim, pp. 106-36; Waziri Kermāni, 1985, I, pp. 396-401; Bosworth, 1968, pp. 173-74).

The irruption of these Oghuz initially caused much economic and social distress in Kerman, but Malek Dinār (r. 582-91/1186-95) gradually restored order there, earning much praise from the local historian for his wisdom and statesmanship and his restoration of prosperity to the province. Once firmly in power, he extended his authority southwards to the Arabian Sea coast and Makrān, making the amirs of Hormuz and of the island of Kiš/Qays his tributaries (Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim, pp. 138-64). After his death, however, further confusion ensued in Kerman. In 597/​1200 amirs of the Šabānkāra of Fārs briefly seized power in Bardsir, followed by interventions by the Atabeg of Fārs Saʿd b. Zangi (see ATĀBAKĀN-E FĀRS) in600/​1203 and by amirs of the Ḵᵛārazmšāhs (Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim, pp. 173-89; Waziri Kermāni, 1985, I, pp. 417 ff.). Of these last, Moʾayyed-al-Molk seized power in 610/​1213 at Jiroft, Bam, and Bardsir in the name of ʿAlāʾ-al-Din Moḥammad Ḵᵛārazmšāh b. Tekiš (see Bosworth, 1968, pp. 174-75). Finally, in 619/​1222, Amir Barāq Ḥājeb, who had originally been in the service of the Qara Khitay and had later, after conversion to Islam, become atābak to the shah’s son Ḡiāṯ-al-Din Piršāh, established himself in Kerman. He received confirmation of his position from Sultan Jalāl-al-Din Ḵᵛārazmšāh Mengübirni and founded the line of Qutlughkhanids, which endured, under Mongol suzerainty, for almost a century till the opening years of the 8th/14th century (Spuler, pp. 31-35, 152-54; Ḵorandezi Nasavi, tr., pp. 40, 126-27).

Bibliography:

Sources.

Afżal-al-Din Kermāni, ʿEqd al-ʿolā le’l-mawqef al-aʿlā, ed. ʿAli-Moḥammad ʿĀmeri Nāʾini, Tehran, 1932.

Idem, Badāʾeʿ al-azmān fi waqāʾeʿ Kermān, ed. Mehdi Bayāni, Tehran, 1947 (a collection of scattered parts copied in later sources).

Balāḏori, Fotuḥ al-boldān, ed. M. J. de Goeje, Leiden, 1866.

Abu Ḥanifa Dinavari, al-Aḵbār al-ṭewāl, ed. ʿAbd-al-Moʾmen ʿĀmer and Jamāl-al-Din Šayyāl, Cairo, 1960.

Ebn al-Aṯir, Ketāb al-kāmel fi’l-taʾriḵ, ed. C. J. Tornberg, 13 vols., Beirut, 1965.

Ebn al-Balḵi, Fārs-nāma, ed. Guy Le Strange and Reynold A. Nicholson, as The Fársnáma of Ibnu’l-Balkhi, London, 1921.

Ebn Ḥawqal, Ketāb ṣurat al-arż, ed. Johannes H. Kramers, Leiden, 1967; tr. Johannes Kramers and Gaston Wiet, as Configuration de la terre, 2 vols., Beirut and Paris, 1964.

Ebn Rosta, Ketāb aʿlāq al-nafisa, Leiden, 1967.

Ḥamd-Allāh Mostawfi, Nozhat al-qolub, ed. Guy Le Strange, Leiden and London, 1915; tr. Guy Le Strange, as The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-Qulūb, Leiden and London, 1919.

Ḥodud al-ʿālam men al-mašreq ela’l-maḡreb, ed. Manučehr Sotuda, Tehran, 1962; tr. with commentary by Vladimir Minorsky, as Hu-dūd al-ʿĀlam: ‘The Regions of the World’, London, 1937.

Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim, Tāriḵ-e Saljuqiān-e Kermān, in Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, ed., Recueil de textes relatifs à l’histoires des Seljoucides I, Leiden, 1886, pp. 138-201.

Moqaddasi (Maqdesi), Aḥsan al-tawāriḵ fi maʿrefat al-aqālim, ed. Michael Jan De Goeje, Leiden, 1877.

Šehāb-al-Din Moḥammad Ḵorandezi Nasavi, Sirat al-solṭān Jalāl-al-Din Menkoberti, ed. Ḥāfeẓ Aḥmad Ḥamdi, Cairo, 1953; anonymous 7th/13th-cent. tr., as Sirat-e Jalāl-al-Din Menkoberni, ed. Mojtabā Minovi, Tehran, 1965.

Abu Naṣr Moḥammad ʿOtbi, al-Ketāb al-yamini, 2 vols., Cairo, 1869; tr. Nāṣeḥ b. Ẓafar Jorfādaqāni, as Tarjama-ye Tāriḵ-e yamini, ed. Jaʿfar Šeʿār, Tehran, 1966.

Moḥammad b. ʿAli Rāvandi, Rāḥat al-ṣodur wa āyat al-sorur dar tāriḵ-e Āl-e Saljuq, ed. M. Iqbál, rev. ed. with corrections by Mojtabā Minovi, Tehran, 1985.

Moḥammad b. Jarir Ṭabari, Taʾriḵ al-rosol wa’l-moluk, ed. Michaël Jan De Goeje et al., 15 vols., Leiden, 1879-1901; tr. by various scholars as The History of al-Ṭabari, 40 vols., Albany, New York, 1985-2007.

Tāriḵ-e Sistān, ed. Moḥammad-Taqi Malek-al-Šoʿarāʾ Bahār, Tehran, n.d.; tr. Milton Gold, as The Tārikh-e Sistān, Rome, 1976.

Yaʿqubi, Ketāb al-boldān, ed. Michäel Jan de Goeje, Leiden, 1892; tr. Gaston Wiet, as Les pays, Cairo, 1937.

Studies. W. Vladimirovich Barthold, Turkestan down to the Mongol Invasion, London, 1968.

Idem, An Historical Geography of Iran, tr. Svat Soucek, Princeton, 1984, pp. 135-42.

C. Edmund Bosworth, “The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World (A.D. 1000-1217),” in J. A. Boyle, ed., The Cambridge History of Iran V: The Saljuq and Mongol Period, Cambridge, 1968, pp. 1-202.

Idem, “The Banū Ilyās of Kirmān (320-57/932-68),” in idem, ed., Iran and Islam: In Memory of the Late Vladimir Minorsky, Edinburgh, 1971, pp. 107-24.

Idem, “The Tāhirids and Ṣaffārids,” in R. N. Frye, ed., The Cambridge History of Iran IV: The Period from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs, Cambridge, 1975, pp. 90-135.

Idem, “The Early Ghaznavids,” in R. N. Frye, ed., The Cambridge History of Iran IV: The Period from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs, Cambridge, 1975, pp. 162-97.

Idem, “The Kūfichīs or Qufṣ in Persian History,” Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 14, 1976, pp. 9-17.

Idem, The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz (247/​861 to 949/​1542-3), Costa Mesa, Calif. and New York, 1994.

Heinz Gaube, Arabosasanidische Numismatik, Braunschweig, Germany, 1973.

Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, “Zur Geschichte der Selǵuqen von Kermán,” ZDMG 39, 1885, pp. 362-402.

A. K. S. Lambton, “Kirmān,” in EI2 V, 1986, pp. 147-66.

Guy Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1930, pp. 299-321.

Josef Marquart [Markwart], Ērānšahr nach der Geographie des Ps. Moses Xorenacʿi, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., N. F. 3/2, 1901, pp. 1-358.

M. Nāẓim, The Life and Times of Sulṭān Maḥmūd of Ghazna, Cambridge, 1931.

Gholam Hossein Sadighi, Les mouvements religieux iraniens au IIᵉ et au IIIᵉ sièc1e de l’hégire, Paris, 1938.

Paul Schwarz, Iran im Mittelalter nach den arabischen Geographen III, Leipzig, 1912, pp. 211-88.

Bertold Spuler, Die Mongolen in Iran: Politik, Verwaltung, und Kultur der Ilchanzeit 1220-1350, Leipzig, 1939; 3rd ed., Berlin, 1968.

C. A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-biographical Survey I, London, 1970, pp. 357-58; revised and tr. Yuri E. Bregel, as Persidskaya literature: bio-bibliograficheskiĭ obzor II, pp. 1058-60.

John Walker, A Catalogue of the Muhammadan Coins in the British Museum I: A Catalogue of the Arab-Sassanian Coins; II: A Catalogue of the Arab-Byzantine and Post-Reform Umaiyad Coins, London, 1941-56.

Aḥmad-ʿAli Khan Waziri Kermāni, Joḡrāfiā-ye mamlakat-e Kermān, ed.

Moḥammad-Ebrāhim Bāstāni Pārizi, in FIZ 14, 1966-67, pp. 5-286.

Idem, Tāriḵ-e Kermān, ed. Moḥammad-Ebrāhim Bāstāni Pārizi, 2 vols, Tehran, 1985.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Originally Published online: November 4, 2013

Archived version from the previous EIr. online edition.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(C. Edmund Bosworth)

Originally Published: June 15, 2017

Last Updated: June 15, 2017

This article is available in print.
Vol. XVI, Fasc. 3, pp. 276-280

Cite this entry:

C. Edmund Bosworth, “KERMAN v. HISTORY FROM THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST TO THE COMING OF THE MONGOLS,” Encyclopædia Iranica, XVI/3, pp. 276-280, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kerman-05-islamic-conquest (accessed on 30 December 2017).