Shah Mahmud (Muzaffarid)
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Shah Mahmud was a pretender to the throne and a short-time ruler of the Muzaffarids in the 14th century. He was a brother of Shah Shoja Mozaffari, and one of his main rivals.
Shah Mahmud (detail) in a battle with his brother, the Muzaffarid ruler Shah Shuja. Khvandamir, Ḥabībuʾs-Siyar, 1592. Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa, 738, fol. 155r
Shaykh Uways Jalayir
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Shaykh Uways Jalayir was the Jalayirid ruler of Iraq and Azerbaijan. He was the son of Hasan Buzurg and the Chobanid princess Dilshad Khatun.
Muhammad b. Muhammad al-'Arif presents his work, Farhäd u Gulistan, to Shaikh Uvays Bahadur Khan. Farhädnäma, Karabagh and Ardabil (1369-72) (Istanbul Topkapi Palace Museum Ms. H. 678)
Great Jalayirid Shāhnāma, Tabriz or Baghdad, ca. 1370–74, at the end of the reign of Shaykh Uways Jalayir.
Gold coin of Shaykh Uways I (1356-1374), Baghdad mint, dated AH 762 (AD 1360-1)
Abduction of Zal by the Simurgh. Shahnama (Topkapı, Hazine 2153), created circa 1370 under Shaykh Uways Jalayir. Tabriz (Topkapı, Hazine 2153)