Abarkuh

Abarkuh is a small town belonging to Yazd, on the road from Shiraz to Yazd: 39 farsakhs from Shiraz and 28 from Yazd. It is also linked by road with Abadah. It lies in a plain. The Persian geographer Mustawfi (Nuzha, p. 121) explains its name, "on a mountain", as a reference to an earlier site. ¹

In 443/1051 Tughrilbeg gave Yazd and Abarkuh to the Kakuyid Faramarz, as compensation for the loss of Isfahan. His successors went on ruling both towns as atabegs. In the eighth/fourteenth century Abarkuh is often mentioned in the history of the Muzaffarids. ¹

The oldest of its many ruins is a mausoleum built in 448/1056 by Firuzan, a descendant of Firuzan of Ashkawar in Gilan, a condottiere of the fourth/tenth century. The so-called mausoleum of Ta'us al-Haramayn was built, or rebuilt, in 718/1318 by a fifth-generation descendant of the Muzaffarid Abu Bakr Muhammad. ¹