# Akhsitan II

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{{Infobox monarch
| name         = Akhsitan II
| title        = [Shah](/source/Shah) of [Shirvan](/source/Shirvan)
| image        = Copper fulus of Shirvanshah II Ahsitan.jpg
| caption      = Copper fulus of II Ahsitan. [Museum of History of Azerbaijan](/source/Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan), [Baku](/source/Baku)
| reign        = 1243/1255 - 1260
| issue        = [Farrukhzad II](/source/Farrukhzad_II)
| predecessor  = [Fariburz III](/source/Fariburz_III)
| successor    = [Farrukhzad II](/source/Farrukhzad_II)
| royal house  = [Kasranid](/source/Kasranid)
| father       = [Fariburz III](/source/Fariburz_III)
| birth_date   = 
| birth_place  = 
| death_date   = 1260
| death_place  = 
}}

'''Jalal ad-din Akhsitan''' was the 27th [Shirvanshah](/source/Shirvanshah). 

== Reign ==
[Zakariya al-Qazwini](/source/Zakariya_al-Qazwini) described him as "ruler of independent region of Shirvan" in his ''[Aja'ib al-Makhluqat](/source/Aja'ib_al-Makhluqat).''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bunyadov |first=Ziya |author-link=Ziya Bunyadov |date=1976 |title=Материалы из сочинений Закария аль-Казвини об Азербайджане |url=https://www.vostlit.info/Texts/rus15/Kazvini_Zakaria/text3.phtml?id=12441 |journal=News of the Academy of Sciences of the AzSSR. History, Philosophy and Law Series |issue=2 |via=Vostlit}}</ref> He accepted overlordship of Mongols as his coins dating 1256 and 1258 mention [Möngke Khagan](/source/M%C3%B6ngke_Khan)'s name.

His name was also mentioned on a semi-ruined building dated 1257 located between [Nağaraxana](/source/Na%C4%9Faraxana) and [Talışnuru](/source/Tal%C4%B1%C5%9Fnuru) villages of [Shamakhi](/source/Shamakhi). According to [Ibn al-Fuwati](/source/Ibn_al-Fuwati), he was executed by the order of [Hulagu](/source/Hulagu) in 1260.<ref>{{Cite book |last=ibn al-Fuwati |title=Talḵīṣ majmaʿ al-ādāb fī moʿjam al-alqāb |year=1969 |editor-last=Jawād |editor-first=M. |volume=4 (part 2) |location=[Damascus](/source/Damascus) |pages=1067 |language=ar}}</ref>

==References==

{{Reflist}}

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{{s-hou|[House of Shirvanshah](/source/Shirvanshah)||?||1260}}
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{{s-bef|before=[Shirvanshah Fariburz II](/source/Shirvanshah_Fariburz_II)}}
{{s-ttl|title=[Shirvanshah](/source/Shirvanshah)|years=1243 - 1260}}
{{s-aft|after=[Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II](/source/Shirvanshah_Farrukhzad_II)}}
{{end}}

{{Shirvanshahs}}

Category:1260 deaths
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:13th-century Iranian people

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