Medieval Azerbaijan (Iran)

Persianate Muslim Turkoman monarchy (1374–1468)

Persianate Turkoman confederation ruling over Azerbaijan and western Iran (1378–1503)

thumb|Qizilbash troops of Shah Ismail I. Circa 1647 painting, [[Chehel Sotoun]]

thumb|250px|Safavid conquest of Shirvan|The battle between the young Safavid ruler, [[Ismail I, and Farrukh Yasar, last independent ruler of Shirvan. Unknown artist (1541), Persian miniature currently preserved in the British Library, London.]] thumb|250px|Location of Shirvan from a geographic map of the Caucasus by German cartographer Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke (1804), [[Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.]]

Arab dynasty ruling the regions of Azerbaijan and Armenia (955–1071)

conquest of Azerbaijan by the Muslims

period in history which saw the rise of various Iranian dynasties in the Iranian plateau

Dynasty in northwestern Iran from 1155 to 1231

7th-century Arab military leader

10th-century Iranian nobleman and Samanid official

anthology compiled by the Persian poet Jamal al-Din Khalil Shirvani