Hasanwayhids

The Hasanwayhids or Hasanuyids (Kurdish: حەسەنوویییەکان) were a Twelver Shia Kurdish dynasty reigning the western parts of Iran such as Iranian Azerbaijan and Zagros Mountains between Shahrizor and Khuzestan from c. 959 to 1015. The last Hasanwayhid ruler died in 1015 in Sarmadj, south of Bisotun, as the Seljuks began entering the region.

== Aishanid predecessors== The Hasanwayhids were preceded in the region by the Aishanid, or 'Ishania, a Kurdish tribe. This particular group had ruled territories in the districts of Dinawar, Hamadan, and Nahavand. Their emirs, Ghanim and Windad (sons of a certain Ahmad), had usurped the rule from the Abbasid caliphate for fifty years, until their deaths in 960–1. The next generation of Aishanid emirs could not maintain control of their family castles: Ghanim's son, Dizam, was defeated by the Buyid armies, and Windad's son, 'Abd al-Wanhab, was taken prisoner by a rival Kurdish group and handed over to the first Hasanwayhid ruler, Hasanwayh. Hasanwayh was a maternal nephew of Ghanim and Windad, and he obtained the castles of their Aishanid relatives.