Ghazan II

Ghazan Khan
Il-Khan Chupanid puppet
Reign	1356 - 1357
Predecessor	Anushirwan
Died	1357

Ghazan II (Persian: غازان) was the last nominal ruler of the Ilkhanate.

Life

His existence is known through works of medieval authors and numismatics, but otherwise is unattested in history. He appears to have been a puppet of Malek Ashraf in 1356. According to Abū Bakr al-Qutbī al-Ahrī, author of Tarikh-i Uways, when Jani Beg demanded Malek Ashraf to submit in 1357, he replied: "He is the padishah of the ulus of Berke, he has nothing to do with the ulus of Abaqa, for here the ruler is Ghazan and the emirate is mine."^[1][2] He was mentioned by Nur al-Din Azhdari in his Ghazan-nama, whose father Shams al-Din Muhammad served Ghazan II.^[3]

His coins have been minted in Mardin (1356),^[4] Qom (1357),^[5] Soltaniyeh, Maragha, Ray,^[6] Ani, Barda, Ganja, Khoy, Mamaqan, Nakhchivan, Sharur, Tabriz, Tbilisi, Urmia and others.^[7]

References

1. Wing, Patrick (2016). Jalayirids. [Place of publication not identified]: Edinburgh Univ Pr. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4744-0226-2. OCLC 948403225.
2. Abū Bakr al-Qutbī al-Ahrǐ (1954). Ta'rikh-i Shaikh Uwais (History of Shaikh Uwais); an important source for the history of Adharbaijan in the fourteenth century. 'S-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co. p. 77. OCLC 83888707.
3. Jafari-Mazhab, Mohsen (2011-08-23). "The Last Ilkhanid Ruler". Historical Sciences Studies. 3 (1): 25–34. ISSN 2251-9254.
4. "Silver dirham of Ghazan II, Ma'din, 757 H. 1922.216.381". numismatics.org. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
5. "ILKHAN: Ghazan II, 1356-1357, AR 6 dirhams (2.03g), Qumm, DM. VF". Stephen Album Rare Coins. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
6. "Ghazan II coins". tokakte.dk. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
7. Akopyan, Alexander V.; Mosanef, Farbod (2015). "Between Jūjīds and Jalāyirids: the Coinage of the Chopānids, Akhījūq and their Contemporaries, 754–759/1353–1358". Der Islam. 92 (1). doi:10.1515/islam-2015-0008. ISSN 1613-0928.