Khorshidi dynasty


The Khorshidi dynasty, was a dynasty that ruled Little Lorestan between 1184 and 1597AD from Khorramabad. The dynasty was stemmed from the Jangardi tribe.
The rulers of Khorshidi dynasty were called Atabegs, with the word Atabeg resulting from the combination of the Turkish "ata" meaning "father", and "beg"/"bek"/"bak" meaning "great"/"big". After the death of Hessameddin, Shuja' al-din Khurshid became the independent ruler of the entirety of Little Lorestan. After Shuja' al-din Khurshid, a dynasty of his successors ruled Little Lorestan. These Lurs ''' formed the local dynasty of Atabakan-e-Luristan, during the Seljuk era, with the last governor of that dynasty, known as Shahverdi Khan, being executed by Shah Abbas the Great, thereby terminating the Khorshidi dynasty. Shah Abbas then assigned Hossein Beyg of the Silvizi clan, the nephew of Shahverdi Khan, and grandson of Jahangir Atabeg, to rule over Little Lorestan, thus replacing the Khorshidi dynasty with its own kin, the Lorish dynasty known as the Vāli/Wāli dynasty in 1597.

List of Khorshidi rulers

  1. Shuja' al-din Khurshid bin Abubakr bin Muhammad bin Khurshid
  2. Saif al-Din Rustam bin Nur al-din
  3. Sharaf al-Din Abubakr
  4. Izz al-Din Garshasp
  5. Hisam al-Din Khalil bin Badr bin Shuja
  6. Badr al-Din Masud
  7. Taj al-Din bin Hisam al-Din Khalil
  8. Falak al-Din Hasan
  9. Jamal al-Din Khidr bin taj al-Din
  10. Hisam al-Din Omar bin Shams al-Din Darnaki bin Sharaf al-Din bin Tahamtan bin Badr bin Shuja
  11. Shams al-Din Mahmud bin bin Nur al-Din bin Izz al-Din Garshasp
  12. Izz al-Din Muhammad bin Izz al-Din
  13. Dawlat Khatun
  14. Izz al-Din Husain
  15. Shuja al-Din Mahmud
  16. Malik Izz al-Din bin Shuja al-Din
  17. Sidi Ahmad
  18. Shah Husain Abbasi
  19. Shah Rustam
  20. Oghur
  21. Jahangir
  22. Rustam Khan
  23. Shahverdi Khan

    [Vāli Dynasty of Posht-e-Kuh]

The Vāli Dynasty was the successor to the Khorshidi Dynasty and lasted until the new ruling Reza Shah removed the last Vali, Gholam Reza Khan, from power after deciding to take over the territory of what was then called Posht-e-kuh by sending brigadier general Koupal to capture Posht-e-kuh. Upon general Koupal's capture of, and stationing in
Ghaleh Vāli, the period of the Vāli dynasty was over after 744 years putting an end to the longest local dynasty in the history of Iran.