Sarbadars

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A mixture of religious dervishes and secular rulers that came to rule over part of western Khurasan in the midst of the disintegration of the Mongol Ilkhanate in the mid-14th century.

Establishment

April 1337: The Sarbadar state came into existence around early 1337. At that time, much of Khurasan was under the control of the Ilkhanid claimant Togha Temur and his amirs.

September 1337: In the summer of 1337, the Sarbadars, a Persian Shia sect, took possession of Sabzavar, a city in northeastern Iran.

Chronology

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1. Battle of Zava

Was fought on July 18, 1342 between the armies of the Sarbadars and the Kartids (or Kart dynasty).

July 1342: The retreat of Ḥasan Jūrī's followers turned the tide of battle in favor of the Kartids and the Sarbadār were forced to abandon Khorāsān.

2. Timurid invasions

Military campaigns of Timur (or Tamerlane), a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.

January 1382: Sarbadar ruler Khwaja Ali-yi Mu'ayyad submits to Timur.

January 1382: Tamerlan ruled over much of Persian Khorasan by 1381.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1358: In 1357, the Khan of the Golden Horder Jani Beg of the Golden Horde conquered Chupanid-held Tabriz for a year, putting an end to the Ilkhanate remnant.

January 1358: Mubariz ad-Din Muhammad conquered Isfahan and Tabriz (1357), becoming the most important ruler in Iran.

January 1360: The Marashis were an Iranian Sayyid Twelver Shiʿite dynasty of Mazandarani origin, ruling in Mazandaran from 1359.

January 1377: The Sarbadars soon suffered a period of internal strife, and Ghiyas-uddin Pir 'Ali took advantage of this by seizing the city of Nishapur around 1375 or 1376.