The five Shabankara clans, herders and warriors, range over the hills and plains of eastern Fars between Fasa, Niriz, Darabgird and the Kerman border.
The Mas'udi house supplies the chiefs; the clans follow it in war and raid on their own account in bad years. Their leaders for 1200 are not pinned.
Who holds it
- Title
- Clan chiefs under the Mas'udi house at Ij
- Since
- Not pinned
- Confidence
- low
Overlord
The Shabankara chief at Ij; nominally the atabeg of Fars.
What it holds
- The hill pastures round Ij, Istahbanat and Niriz
- The plains of Darabgird
- The routes towards Kerman (Burk, Tarum, Furg)
How things stand that morning
Under their own chiefs.
Customs
Tribal herding between hill and plain pastures; the chiefs' authority rests on war leadership and kinship.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Clan names from the fourteenth-century sources (via Wikipedia after Buchner and Mustawfi).
On the map: Same outline as the Shabankara realm; the pastures are not pinned more closely.
Sources and studies
- 'Shabankara', English Wikipedia (after Buchner, EI1 'Shabankara'; Spuler; Mustawfi, Nuzhat al-qulub)
- Al-Shaymaa Sayed Kamel Muhammad, 'Atabakat al-Shabankara fi sharq Faris (448-756 AH)', al-Mu'arrikh al-'Arabi 27 (2019)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.