King of Hormuz

Who he is

Title

Malik of Hormuz

Since

Not pinned

Born

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Family

The line of Muhammad Dirhamkub

Confidence

low

See the realm record. The fifteen-king list of the late Hormuz chronicle (Turanshah, via Teixeira) is undated before Rukn al-Din Mahmud Qalhati (1249-1286).

Overlord

The master of Kerman (presumably the Khwarazmian governor in 1200).

What it holds

• Old Hormuz
• The Minab valley and Rudan
• The coast from the Bandar Abbas shore to Sirik

How it was acquired

Hereditary.

Allies and rivals

Rival: Kish. Overlord: Kerman.

How things stand that morning

Holds Hormuz as a tributary of Kerman.

Wealth

Horses, dates, transit trade, tolls on the strait.

Threats

• Kish

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: No dated mention of the king for 1199-1200.

On the map: Rough.

Primary sources for Hormuz

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Annals of Oman, from the Kashf al-ghumma, Sirhan ibn Sa'id ibn Sirhan (compiler), from earlier Ibadi chronicles (about 1728, from earlier Ibadi sources). The Ibadi imamate of Oman has no contemporary chronicle for 1200; the later Omani compilations (the Kashf al-ghumma and al-Salimi's Tuhfat al-a'yan) preserve a list of imams and the tradition of the Nabhani maliks who ruled the interior from the 12th century, with Hormuz and Kish pressing on the coast. Read online
• Dictionary of Countries, Yaqut al-Hamawi (1224 to 1228, at Aleppo). An alphabetical gazetteer of every place Yaqut had read of or seen: he travelled as a bookseller's agent through Syria, Iraq, Persia, Khurasan and Khwarazm (about 1213 to 1220) and settled in Aleppo. Read online