A town on the edge of the desert where the roads from Yazd and Isfahan meet the road to Shiraz, with the brick tomb tower of the Gunbad-i Ali (448/1056-57) and a famous ancient cypress.
Who holds it
- Name
- Izz al-Din Langar, or the atabeg of Fars
- Title
- Atabeg of Yazd (low confidence)
- Since
- Not pinned
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
Not pinned: the atabeg of Yazd (heir of the Kakuyids, who held 'Yazd and Abarquh' in the eleventh century) or the atabeg of Fars (the geographers list it in Fars).
How things stand that morning
Not pinned between Yazd and Fars.
Charter
None known: the towns of the atabegs have no charters; the governor, the judge (qadi) and the market inspector (muhtasib) answer to the ruler.
Council
No sworn council; the notables (a'yan), the qadi and the headman (ra'is) speak for the town. Names for 1199-1200 not pinned.
Communities
Persian townsmen.
Fairs and markets
Daily or weekly markets; no fair dates recorded.
Militia
Not recorded for 1199-1200.
Walls and castle
Not described for 1200.
Trade and crafts
Caravan stop; farming by qanat.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No source for 1200.
Primary sources for Yazd
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.
- 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
Sources and studies
- G. Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate (1905), chapters XVII-XXIV (Fars, Kirman, Makran) after Istakhri, Muqaddasi, Ibn al-Balkhi, Yaqut and Mustawfi
- S. C. Fairbanks, 'Atabakan-e Yazd', Encyclopaedia Iranica (after Ja'fari, Tarikh-i Yazd; Ahmad b. Husayn, Tarikh-i jadid-i Yazd; Mufid Bafqi)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.