Garshasp I ibn Muhammad (), mostly known as Garshasp I, was the Kakuyid

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, including

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and western

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. He was the youngest son of

Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar (Persian: ابوجعفر دشمنزیار), also known by his ''laqab'' of Ala al-Dawla Muhammad (علاء الدوله محمد), was a Daylamite military commander who founded in 1008 the short-lived but important ...

, and was the vassal king of his brother

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. In 1047, the

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defeated his forces and seized Hamadan, which forced him to flee to

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territory, where he became governor of

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. In ca. 1050, Garshasp sent an army to aid the

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ruler Maw'dud in his wars with the Seljuqs. Garshasp later died in 1051/2 in Khuzestan.

References

Bibliography

* Janine and Dominique Sourdel, ''Historical Dictionary of Islam'', Éd. PUF, , article ''Kakuyids'', pp. 452–453. * * * {{Kakuyids 1050s deaths 11th-century monarchs in the Middle East Date of birth unknown Kakuyids 11th-century Iranian people Buyid governors