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" Kay Kāʾūs b. Iskandar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Marlow, Louise
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English
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1062439
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ALei2836
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Marlow, Louise
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Kay Kāʾūs b. Iskandar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Marlow, Louise
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,402 words)
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Kay Kāʾūs b. Iskandar b. Qābūs b. Vushmgīr, ʿUnṣur al-Maʿālī (b. c.412/1021–2, r. 441-c.480/1049-c.1087), belonged to the Ziyārid dynasty, which ruled, with varying autonomy, in the Caspian provinces of Ṭabaristān and Gurgān from about 319/931 to about 483/1090. Describing himself as mawlā-yi amīr al-muʾminīn (“lord and commander of the believers”) ( QN , 3), Amīr Kay Kāʾūs ascended the throne in 441/1049, at a time when much of his territory had come under the suzerainty of the Saljūqs,
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Islam.
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ALei2836.pdf
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