حسنويه الكردي
حسنويه الكردي
Hasanwayh the Barzikani Kurd, lord of Dinawar and its marches for some fifty years; a disciplined, charitable prince who built the fortress of Sarmadaj and Dinawar's mosque; his sons scattered on his death in 369 till Adud al-Dawla raised Badr among them 1.
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- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Overview
Hasanwayh ibn al-Husayn al-Kurdi al-Barzikani, commander of an army of Barzikan known as the Barziniyya. Together with his two brothers, Nadad and Ghanim, the sons of Ahmad, he held the regions of Dinawar, Nihawand, Samirra and parts of Azerbaijan up to the border of Shahrazur for about fifty years. 1
Ibn al-Athir describes him as wise in policy and conduct, controlling his affairs, restraining his men from plunder, and generous in charity in the two Holy Cities. He built the fortress of Sarmaj with dressed stones, and built a congregational mosque on a hill at Dinawar. 1
He died in 369 AH at Sarmaj, and his sons went their separate ways after him; Adud al-Dawla then raised Abu al-Najm Badr from among them. 1
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- Hasanwayhid dynasty
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Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 517-518
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