Kart dynasty

Kart dynasty
آل کرت
1244–1381
The Kart dynasty at its greatest extent
The Kart dynasty at its greatest extent
StatusMonarchy
CapitalHerat
Common languagesPersian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Malik/Sultan 
• 1245
Malik Rukn-uddin Abu Bakr (first)
• 1370–1389
Ghiyas-uddin Pir 'Ali (last)
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Foundation by Malik Rukn-uddin Abu Bakr
1244
• Disestablished
1381
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Ilkhanate
Timurid Empire
Today part ofAfghanistan
Iran
Turkmenistan

The Kart dynasty, also known as the Kartids (Persian: آل کرت), was a Sunni Muslim[1] dynasty of Tajik origin,[2] closely related to the Ghurids,[3] that ruled over a large part of Khorasan during the 13th and 14th centuries. Ruling from their capital at Herat and central Khorasan in the Bamyan, they were at first subordinates of Sultan Abul-Fateh Ghiyāṣ-ud-din Muhammad bin Sām, Sultan of the Ghurid Empire, to whom they were related,[4] and then as vassal princes within the Mongol Empire.[5] Upon the fragmentation of the Ilkhanate in 1335, Mu'izz-uddin Husayn ibn Ghiyath-uddin worked to expand his principality. The death of Husayn b. Ghiyath-uddin in 1370 and the invasion of Timur in 1381, ended the Kart dynasty's ambitions.[5]

  1. ^ Farhad Daftary, The Ismāī̀līs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 445.
  2. ^ Daʿadli, Tawfiq (9 April 2019). Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting. BRILL. p. 7. ISBN 978-90-04-39841-2.
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  4. ^ M.J. Gohari, Taliban: Ascent to Power, (Oxford University Press, 2000), 4.
  5. ^ a b C.E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, (Columbia University Press, 1996), 263.

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