Justanids
Sign in to saveThe Justanids or Jostanids () were an Iranian Zaydi Shia dynasty that ruled a part of Daylam (the mountainous district of Gilan) from 791 to the late 11th century.
Key facts
- Country.native_name
- جستانیان
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Justanids
- Country.common_name
- Justanid dynasty
- Country.era
- Middle Ages
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.year_start
- 791
- Country.year_end
- 11th-century
- Country.event_end
- Ismaili conquest
- Country.p1
- Daylamites
- Country.s1
- Nizari Ismaili state
- Country.capital
- Rudbar
- Country.common_languages
- Persian Deylami
- Country.religion
- Zoroastrianism (791–805) Zaydi Islam (805–11th-century)
- Country.title_leader
- King
- Country.leader1
- Justan I (first)
- Country.year_leader1
- 791–805
- Country.leader2
- Khusrau Shah (last)
- Country.year_leader2
- 972–1004
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The Justanids or Jostanids () were an Iranian Zaydi Shia dynasty that ruled a part of Daylam (the mountainous district of Gilan) from 791 to the late 11th century.
== History == The Justanids appear as kings of Daylam at the end of the 8th century. Their centre was in the Rudbar of Alamut, running into the valley of the Shahrood. Two centuries later, this had become the main centre of the historical Nizari Ismailis or Assassins (Hashshashin), as they are known in the west. They appear in Islamic history as part of what Vladimir Minorsky has called "the Iranian Intermezzo". This refers to a period in which indigenous Daylamite and Kurdish principalities took power in northwest Persia after two to three centuries of Arab rule. The Daylamite upsurge eventually culminated in the Buyid dynasty.