page_title: Mir-i Buzurg
section_title: Reign
hierarchical_section_title: Mir-i Buzurg / Reign
caption_attribution_description: English: Caspian coast of Iran during the Safavid, Afsharid, Qajar, and early Pahlavi era. Map taken from DEMIS Mapserver, which is public domain, the rest is self-made.
context_page_description: Qavam al-Din ibn Abdallah al-Marashi, better known as Gate Mir, Mir Buzurg or Mir Bozorg, was the founder of the Marashi dynasty, ruling from 1359 to 1362.
context_section_description: Mir-i Buzurg shortly conquered the territories of the Afrasiyab dynasty, and laid foundations to the Marashis. The following year Afrasiyab's son Fakhr al-Din Chulabi murdered one of the sons of Mir-i Buzurg, which resulted in a massacre of most of the Afrasiyabid family. Another son of Afrasiyab, Iskandar-i Shaykhi, managed to escape the massacre and flee to Khorasan.
  Mir-i Buzurg then turned against Jalali family which governed Sari. A battle shortly ensured between Mir-i Buzurg and the two Jalali nobles Vishtasp Jalali and Fakhr al-Din Jalali, where Mir-i Buzurg was victorious. With the help of former loyalists of Kiya Afrasiyab, Vishtasp killed a son of Mir-i Buzurg. Fakhr al-Din Jalali and his four children were shortly killed in a battle by Mir-i Buzurg, who shortly entered Sari. Vishtasp then fled from Sari and took refuge with his family in a fortress. However, Mir-i Buzurg shortly besieged the fortress, and managed to capture it. He then had Vishtasp and his seven sons executed. A son of Mir-i Buzurg, Kamal al-Din I, then married the daughter of Vishtasp. Mir-i Buzurg also began rebuilding Sari which was greatly damaged during his invasion of the city.
  All of Mazandaran was now united under the rule of Mir-i Buzurg, who wanted to spend the rest of his life in devoting himself to religion. In 1362 he gave his son Kamal al-Din I the city of Sari, while his other son Rida al-Din was given Amol. Mir-i Buzurg later died of illness in 1379, and was buried in Amol. In 1403, his tomb was destroyed by Iskandar-i Shaykhi, a son of Afrasiyab. However, after the death of Iskandar, the tomb of Mir-i Buzurg was rebuilt. During the reign of the Safavid Shah Abbas I, who was himself a descendant of Mir-i Buzurg from his mother's side, decorated his tomb with gold.
caption: Map of northern Iran.
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