The Rulers of Fars and their Parentage

The Muzaffarid Dynasty

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Ruler Reign (CE) Yrs Father Mother Persian Name فارسی
Mubariz al-Din Muhammad 1314–1358 44 Sharaf al-Din Muzaffar unknownblinded by his own sons2 Mobārez-al-Dīn Mohammad مبارزالدین محمد
Shah Mahmud 1358–1375 17 Mubariz al-Din Muhammad unknownruled from Isfahan Shāh Mahmūd شاه محمود
Shah Shuja 1358–1384 26 Mubariz al-Din Muhammadbrother of Shah Mahmud3 unknownruled from Shiraz Shāh Shojā’ شاه شجاع
Zayn al-Abidin Ali 1384–1387 3 Shah Shuja unknown Zein-al-ʿābedīn Ali زین‌العابدین علی
Shah Mansur 1387–1393 6 Shah Mahmud unknownkilled resisting Timur4 Shāh Mansur شاه منصور
Notes on the evidence

1 Mubariz al-Din Muhammad began as a local Ilkhanate-appointed governor around Yazd and Kerman, expanding his territory as central Mongol authority collapsed after 1335. Several of his descendants ruled simultaneously from rival courts at Shiraz, Isfahan, Kerman and Yazd; this table follows the central line rather than every co-ruling cousin.

2 Mubariz al-Din Muhammad's harsh religious zealotry — forcibly closing taverns and wine shops in Shiraz — made him deeply unpopular. His own sons had him blinded and imprisoned in 1358.

3 Shah Shuja's court at Shiraz was home to Hafez, perhaps the greatest poet in the Persian language, whose ghazals contain veiled references to the political turbulence and patronage of the Muzaffarid princes he lived under.

4 Timur (Tamerlane) invaded Fars in 1387 and again decisively in 1393, capturing Shiraz and executing most of the surviving Muzaffarid princes, including Shah Mansur, who died fighting rather than surrender — ending the dynasty entirely.