Adur Narseh
{{Short description|Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire in 309 CE}}
{{Infobox monarch
| name = Adur Narseh
| title = King of Kings of Iranians and non-Iranians
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| succession = Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire
| reign = 309
| predecessor = Hormizd II
| successor = Shapur II
| royal house = House of Sasan
| father = Hormizd II
| mother = Ifra Hormizd
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| death_date = 309
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| religion = Zoroastrianism
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Adur Narseh was the ninth Sasanian King of Kings of Iran briefly in 309. Following his father's death, the nobles and Zoroastrian clergy saw an opportunity to gain influence within the Empire. Thus, they murdered Adur Narseh, blinded one of his brothers and forced another brother (Hormizd) to flee.{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|p=56}} He was succeeded by his infant brother Shapur II.{{sfn|Tafazzoli|1983|p=477}}
Adur Narseh is only mentioned in some Greek sources, while oriental sources make no mention of him, and none of his coins have yet been found.{{sfn|Schindel|2013|p=815}} The credibility of these Greek sources regarding Adur Narseh is questioned by Nikolaus Schindel, who believes that Adur Narseh probably never ruled.{{sfn|Schindel|2013|p=815}}
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- {{cite book|last=Pourshariati|first=Parvaneh|title=Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran|location=London and New York|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=2008|isbn=978-1-84511-645-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-xtAAAAMAAJ}}
- {{cite book |last1=Schindel |first1=Nikolaus |editor-last=Potts|editor-first=Daniel T.|title=The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199733309 |chapter=Sasanian Coinage}}
- {{cite encyclopedia | last = Shahbazi | first = A. Shapur | author-link= Alireza Shapour Shahbazi | title = Sasanian dynasty | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sasanian-dynasty | year = 2005 | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition }}
- {{cite encyclopedia | article = ĀDUR NARSEH | last = Tafazzoli | first = Ahmad | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/adur-narseh-son-of-the-sasanian-king-hormizd-ii-a | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 5 | pages = 477 | year = 1983 }}
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{{S-hou|Sasanian dynasty||||309}}
{{S-bef|before=Hormizd II}}
{{S-ttl|title=King of Kings of Iran and non-Iran|years=309}}
{{S-aft|after=Shapur II}}
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Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:4th-century Sasanian monarchs
Category:Murdered Persian monarchs
Category:4th-century murdered monarchs
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