{{Short description|Iranian Sayyid Twelver Shiʿite dynasty ruling in Mazandaran (1359-1596)}} {{Redirect|Marashi}} {{Multiple issues| {{More citations needed|date=January 2026}} {{More footnotes|date=January 2026}} }} {{Infobox former country | native_name = <big>مرعشیون</big> | conventional_long_name = Mar'ashi dynasty | common_name = <!-- Name to be used in constructing links and category names; not for display --> | iso3166code = omit <!-- For a country or geopolitical version of a country that ceased to exist prior to the introduction of iso3166--> | era = Middle Ages | status = | status_text = <!-- A free text to describe status at the top of the infobox. Use sparingly. --> | empire = <!-- The empire or country to which the entity was in a state of dependency --> | government_type = Monarchy <!-- Rise and fall, events, years and dates --> <!-- only fill in the start/end event entry if a specific article exists. Don't just say "abolition" or "declaration" -->| event_start = <!-- Default: "Established" --> | date_start = <!-- Optional: Date of establishment, in format 1 January (no year) --> | year_start = 1359 | event_end = <!-- Default: "Disestablished" --> | date_end = <!-- Optional: Date of disestablishment, in format 1 January (no year) --> | year_end = 1596 | event1 = <!-- Optional: other events between "start" and "end" --> | date_event1 = | event2 = | date_event2 = | event3 = | date_event3 = | event4 = | date_event4 = | event5 = | date_event5 = | event6 = | date_event6 = | event_pre = <!-- Optional: A crucial event that took place before "event_start" --> | date_pre = | event_post = <!-- Optional: A crucial event that took place after "event_end" --> | date_post = <!-- Flag navigation: Preceding and succeeding entities p1 to p5 and s1 to s5 --> | p1 = Afrasiyab dynasty | flag_p1 = <!-- Default: "Flag of {{{p1}}}.svg" (size 30) --> | image_p1 = <!-- Use: 20px|Image missing --> | p2 = | flag_p2 = | p3 = | flag_p3 = | p4 = | flag_p4 = | p5 = | flag_p5 = | s1 = Safavid Empire | flag_s1 = | image_s1 = <!-- Use: 20px|Image missing --> | s2 = | flag_s2 = | s3 = | flag_s3 = | s4 = | flag_s4 = | s5 = | flag_s5 = | image_flag = <!-- Default: Flag of {{{common_name}}}.svg --> | flag_alt = <!-- Alt text for flag --> | image_flag2 = <!-- Second flag --> | flag_alt2 = <!-- Alt text for second flag --> | flag = <!-- Link target under flag image. Default: Flag of {{{common_name}}} --> | flag2 = <!-- Link target under flag2 image. Default: Flag of {{{common_name}}} --> | flag_type = <!-- Displayed text for link under flag. Default "Flag" --> | flag2_type = <!-- Displayed text for link under flag2. Default "Flag" --> | image_coat = <!-- Default: Coat of arms of {{{common_name}}}.svg --> | coa_size = <!-- Size of coat of arms --> | coat_alt = <!-- Alt text for coat of arms --> | symbol_type = <!-- Displayed text for link under symbol. Default "Coat of arms" --> | symbol_type_article = <!-- Link target under symbol image. Default: Coat of arms of {{{common_name}}} --> | image_map = Marashiyan government 1359-1582 AD.png | image_map_alt = | image_map_caption = Map of the Mar'ashi state | capital = Amol, Sari, Vatashan | common_languages = Mazanderani | religion = Twelver Shia Islam | currency = <!-- Titles and names of the first and last leaders and their deputies --> | leader1 = Mir-i Buzurg <small>(first)</small> | leader2 = Rida al-Din | leader3 = Kamal al-Din I | leader4 = Ghiyas al-Din Ali | leader21 = <!--(up to 21 distinct leaders may be included)--> | year_leader1 = 1359-1362 | year_leader2 = 1362-1392 | year_leader3 = 1362-1392 | year_leader4 = 1404-? | year_leader21 = | title_leader = <!-- Default: "King" for monarchy, otherwise "President" --> | today = Iran }} The '''Mar'ashis''' (Mazandarani: مرعشیون; {{langx|fa|مرعشیان}} ''Mar'ašiyān'') or the '''Mar'ashi dynasty''' were an Iranian Sayyid Twelver Shiʿite dynasty of Mazandarani origin, ruling in Mazandaran from 1359 to 1596.

[[File:Strangulation of Khayr al-Nisa Begum, at the Safavid court. Nusretname (1584).jpg|thumb|upright|left|The strangulation of the Mar'ashi Safavid queen Khayr al-Nisa Begum by the Qizilbash, at the Safavid court on 26 July 1579. ''Nusretname'' (Topkapi, H.1365) (1584).<ref name="Ul799">{{harvnb|Uluç|2013|p=799}}</ref>]] The dynasty was founded by Mir-i Buzurg, a Sayyid native to Dabudasht. Their capitals were Amol, Sari, and Vatashan.

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== Sources == * {{cite encyclopedia | title = Āl-e Afrāsīāb | last = Bosworth | first = C. E. | author-link = | url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/al-e-afrasiab-mazandaran | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, Vol. I, Fasc. 7 | pages = 742–743| location = New York | year = 1984}} * {{cite book | title = The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6: The Timurid and Safavid periods | year = 1986 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | editor-last = Frye | editor-first = R. N. | last = Bosworth | first = C. E. | author-link = C. E. Bosworth | chapter = The Jalayirids, Muzaffarids and Sarbadars | pages = 1–42 | isbn = 9780521200943 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ0-2BIR8BQC&q=cambridge+history+of+iran+vol+6}} * {{EI2|last=Calmard|first=J|volume=6|title=Marʿas̲h̲is|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/marashis-COM_0679}} * {{cite book|last=Manz|first=Beatrice Forbes|author-link=Beatrice Forbes Manz|title=Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfkpHz9q_RMC|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-46284-6}} * {{cite book|last=Subtelny|first=Maria|title=Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QqryxbUEkbUC|year=2007|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-16031-6}} * {{cite book |last1=Uluç |first1=Lâle |title=14th International Congress of Turkish Art Proceedings |chapter=The representation of the execution of the Safavid Begum from the Ottoman Historian Mustafa Ali's Nusretname |date=2013 |publisher=Collège de France |location=Paris |isbn=978-9751736970 |pages=799–820 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lale_Uluc4/publication/275968020_The_Representation_of_the_Execution_of_the_Safavid_Begum_from_the_Nusretname_of_Mustafa_Ali/links/554c9b810cf21ed2135bde85/The-Representation-of-the-Execution-of-the-Safavid-Begum-from-the-Nusretname-of-Mustafa-Ali.pdf}} <!--- {{sfn|Uluç|2013|p=}} --->

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== External links == {{Commons category|Marashiyan}} * {{cite web | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/alids-of-tabarestan-daylaman-and-gilan | title = ʿALIDS OF ṬABARESTĀN, DAYLAMĀN, AND GĪLĀN | last = Madelung | first = W. | publisher = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition | access-date = 12 May 2014}}

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