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    Yazid ibn Ahmad or Yazid II (Arabic: یزید) was the tenth Shirvanshah. Yazid was second son of Shirvanshah Ahmad. He followed his brother Muhammad IV on...
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  • –635) Khalid ibn al-Walid (635–636) Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah (636–637) Amr ibn al-Aas (637–640) Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (640) Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan (640–661)...
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  • Sitt b. Fadl) Qubad (1043 – 1049) Shamkuya (m. Abd al-Malik II of Derbent in December 1035, d. October 1067, Gulistan) Ahmad ibn Yazid Ali III Sallar...
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    Some western scholars derive the name from the Umayyad Caliph Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya (Yazid I). However, all Yazidis reject any relationship between their...
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    became almost completely Persian instead of Arabic, such as Manuchihr, Qubad and Faridun. The family now preferred to use names from national Iranian...
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  • 1049 to 1050. He was the successor and nephew of Qubad. His father Ahmad b. Yazid was a son of Yazid II. He was immediately deposed by his uncle, Sallar...
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    seen in the early adoption of Persian epic names by the Seljuk rulers (Qubād, Kay Khusraw and so on) and in the use of Persian as a literary language...
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  • Xafilê Bênasîn – The Hymn of the Unknown Negligence Qewlê Xan Qubad – The Hymn of Xan Qubad Qewlê Xerqe – The Hymn of the Xerqe. Attributed to Lawikê Pîr...
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    second time, this time being followed by Fariburz's paternal uncle Mamlan ibn Yazid a claimant to throne of Shirvan. Qara-tegin shortly besieged Shamakhi...
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