Kart dynasty آل کرت | |||||||||
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1244–1381 | |||||||||
Status | Monarchy | ||||||||
Capital | Herat | ||||||||
Common languages | Persian | ||||||||
Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
Malik/Sultan | |||||||||
• 1245 | Malik Rukn-uddin Abu Bakr (first) | ||||||||
• 1370–1389 | Ghiyas-uddin Pir 'Ali (last) | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Foundation by Malik Rukn-uddin Abu Bakr | 1244 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1381 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Afghanistan Iran Turkmenistan |
The Kart dynasty, also known as the Kartids (Persian: آل کرت), was a Sunni Muslim[1] dynasty of Tajik origin closely related to the Ghurids,[2] that ruled over a large part of Khorasan during the 13th and 14th centuries. Ruling from their capital at Herat and central Khorasan in the Bamyan, they were at first subordinates of Sultan Abul-Fateh Ghiyāṣ-ud-din Muhammad bin Sām, Sultan of the Ghurid Empire, to whom they were related,[3] and then as vassal princes within the Mongol Empire.[4] Upon the fragmentation of the Ilkhanate in 1335, Mu'izz-uddin Husayn ibn Ghiyath-uddin worked to expand his principality. The death of Husayn b. Ghiyath-uddin in 1370 and the invasion of Timur in 1381, ended the Kart dynasty's ambitions.[4]
"The Kurt dynasty which ruled Afghanistan under the Persian Mongols were also Tadjiks. In the south, spreading into BalocistBn the population of Tadjik origin goes by the name of DehwSr or Dehkan, i. e. villager, and north of the Hindn- kush ..."
"The indigenous Kurt dynasty, a Tajik line related to the Ghurids"
"The inhabitants of Seistan are a mixture of Tajiks and Baluchis. Some of them ... The Ghori and Kurt dynasties who ruled in Afghanistan were Tajiks ... "
"The indigenous Kert (Kurt) dynasty, a Tajik line related to the Ghurids, ruled at Herat"