قتل مرداويج بن زياد
قتل مرداويج بن زياد
935 · 323 AH
In 323 the Daylamite ruler Mardawij ibn Ziyad was killed at Isfahan by his own Turkish ghilman. He had staged a Zoroastrian-style festival for the winter night — mountains ringed with bonfires, two thousand birds released with oil-soaked legs, a banquet of a hundred whole roasted horses — then humiliated his Turks, who seized the moment and killed him 1.
At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
In 323 AH Mardawij ibn Ziyad al-Daylami, lord of the Jibal lands, was killed near Isfahan by his Turkish slave soldiers. 2
The cause in Ibn al-Athir
Ibn al-Athir says that Mardawij greatly harmed his Turks, and said that the Turks were devils. So they wished for his destruction. 2
The night of the feast
On the night of the feast he ordered wood gathered and lit on the mountains, and birds and a great number of roasted animals gathered on a great table. When he rode around the table he thought little of it all, and was angry. On the fourth day he ordered the saddles taken off the animals and put on the backs of the Turks, and whoever refused was beaten. 2
The senior Turkish slave soldiers seized the opportunity and killed him. 2
The Gregorian date is derived from the Hijri date.
Connections
- Had participant
- مرداويج بن زياد الديلمي
- Occurred at
- Isfahan
People and things also explored
ظهور الديلم واستيلاء علي بن بويه على فارس· Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· Salman al-Farisi· مرداويج بن زياد الديلمي· Isfahan· حصار أبي يزيد للمهدية· The Second Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen· استيلاء المرابطين على إشبيلية
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 223-226
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.223-226
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “قتل مرداويج بن زياد”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/killing-of-mardawij-323/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.