Adud al-Dawla Qubad was the

Baduspanid The Baduspanids, Paduspanids or Badusbanids (), were a local Iranian dynasty of Tabaristan which ruled over Ruyan/Rustamdar. The dynasty was established in 665, and with 933 years of rule as the longest dynasty in Iran, it ended in 1598 when th ...

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ustandar ''Ostandar'' or ''Ustandar'' was an Administrative divisions of the Sasanian Empire, administrative title wielded by provincial governors under the Sasanian Empire. They governed the royal lands, known as the ''ostan''. The title was later assumed ...

'') of

Rustamdar Ruyan (), later known as Rustamdar (), was a mountainous district that encompassed the western part of Tabaristan/Mazandaran, a region on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. In Iranian mythology, Ruyan appears as one of the places that the lege ...

from 1379 to 1381. The son and successor of Fakhr al-Dawla Shah-Ghazi, Qubad was soon after his accession accused by the

Mar'ashis The Marashiyan or Marashis ( Mazandarani: مرعشیون; ) were an Iranian Sayyid Twelver Shiʿite dynasty of Mazandarani origin, ruling in Mazandaran from 1359 to 1596. The dynasty was founded by Mir-i Buzurg, a Sayyid native to Dabudasht. T ...

of being uncooperative and mistreating the

dervish Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from ) in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (''tariqah''), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. The latter usage is found particularly in Persi ...

es of their order. Intenting to incorporate Rustamdar into their domains, the Mar'ashi Sayyid Fakhr al-Din defeated Qubad and seized the coastal parts of Rustamdar in 1380. A year later (1381), a Mar'ashi force defeated and killed Qubad at a battle at Laktor. The fortress of

Kojur Kojur () is a city in Kojur District of Nowshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as the administrative center for Tavabe-ye Kojur Rural District. The city was founded by the Paduspanid ruler Eskandar II Jalal al-Dawla Iskandar ...

was conquered and made the permanent residence of Fakhr al-Din; the Mar'ashis were now the masters of all of

Mazandaran Mazandaran Province (; ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari, Iran, Sari. Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range and Hyrcanian forests, it is border ...

. The Baduspanids were temporarily ousted from power, until almost a decade later in 1390, when the Mar'ashis installed Sa'd al-Dawla Tus on the Baduspanid throne in Rustamdar to challenge the Afrasiyabid prince

Iskandar-i Shaykhi Iskandar-i Shaykhi (), was an Iranian from the Afrasiyab dynasty, who ruled Amul as a Timurid vassal from 1393 to 1403. He was the youngest son of Kiya Afrasiyab, who had initially established his rule in eastern Mazandaran from 1349 to 1359, b ...

who accompanied the

Turco-Mongol The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was an ethnocultural synthesis that arose in Asia during the 14th century among the ruling elites of the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate. The ruling Mongol elites of these khanates eventually ass ...

ruler

Timur Timur, also known as Tamerlane (1320s17/18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeat ...

(), who intended to conquer

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Qubad, Adud al-Dawla 14th-century Iranian people 14th-century monarchs in the Middle East Baduspanids 1381 deaths Year of birth unknown