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Banu Mazyad (the Mazyadids)

بنو مزيد الأسديون

The Asadi Mazyadids of Tamim — desert amirs between Iraq, Syria and Najd whom Wasit's Alawid notables begged for aid when their quarters burned in the 406 fitna; from that patronage they took Wasit and then al-Hilla, seat of their famous dynasty 1.

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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Overview

Banu Mazyad ibn Asad, Asadi people of Tamim, who were the emirs of the desert between Iraq, Syria and Najd. 1

Wasit and al-Hilla

The notables and the Shi'a leaders of Wasit sought their support when their quarters burned in the strife between Sunnis and Shi'a, around the year 406 AH. They became the defenders of the people of Wasit. 1

They then took al-Hilla, and from it their well-known state arose. 1

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Has member
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mazyad al-Asadi· Dubays ibn Sadaqa al-Mazyadidi· Sadaqa ibn Mansur al-Mazyadidi, King of the Arabs

People and things also explored

Mazyadid dynasty· Dubays ibn Sadaqa al-Mazyadidi· Sadaqa ibn Mansur al-Mazyadidi, King of the Arabs· المسترشد بالله الفضل بن المستظهر· السلطان محمد بن ملكشاه· Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mazyad al-Asadi

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi, j.7 p.283
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Mazyadid dynasty

The state of Banu Mazyad of Banu Asad, kings of al-Hilla in Iraq, whose range ran from Baghdad to Basra and Najd; their chief Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mazyad took the Dubaysi islands and in his lifetime authority passed to his son Dubays Nur al-Dawla, the state peaking under his grandson Sadaqa ibn Mansur — builder of al-Hilla, titled king of the Arabs — until he was killed in 501 AH fighting Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah, after whose sons their line faded.