Ashot ibn Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl was a

Shaddadid The Shaddadids were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Kurdish origin. who ruled in various parts of Armenia and Arran from 951 to 1199 AD. They were established in Dvin. Through their long tenure in Armenia, they often intermarried with the Bagratuni ...

prince, the second son of

Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl Abu'l-Aswar or Abu'l-Asvar Shavur ibn Fadl ibn Muhammad ibn Shaddad also known as Aplesphares, was a member of the Shaddadid dynasty. Between 1049 and 1067 he was the eighth Shaddadid ruler of Arran (today in western Azerbaijan) from Ganja. Pr ...

. During the captivity of his older brother

Fadl ibn Shavur Al-Fadl ibn Shavur or Fadl II was the ninth ruler of the Shaddadids, from 1067 to 1073. He was the son and successor of Abu'l-Aswar Shavur ibn Fadl. Sources

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by the

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in 1068, he ruled in his stead as emir of Arran for eight months (August 1068 – April 1069), even minting coins in his own name and that of his overlord, the

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Sultan

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashot ibn Shavur Emirs of Ganja 11th-century Shaddadid emirs 11th-century regents 11th-century Kurdish people