in the abbasid era, chieftainship (niqābat) was a politico-religious institution with social functions. since the early periods of the samanids era, the alavids’ chieftainship in nayshābūr, capital of khurāsān, had been turned over to the ḥusaynī alavids of banū zubāra, but amīr nūḥ b. manṣūr sāmānī (ruled 366-378) handed over this post to a ḥasanī alavid, whose descendants became the hereditar...

the buyids were originally from among the daylamids of daylam proper (khāṣ), but since the economic situation of this region was not much favorable, they joined various rules (ḥukūmas) such as the alavids of ṭabaristān and zāriyān (during the years 250/222 – 321/222) in their military uniform because of their military skills as a consequence of the circumstances in their geographical homeland a...

during the reign of the seljuks (431–590), a considerable number of persian poets and writers lived in their territory. reviewing the lives of the kings, and that of their ministers and other politicians and dignitaries of seljuks ear, this article tries to show how much each of these individuals had supported persian literature.  at the next step, the patrons are classified in six categories: ...