Akhsitan II

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| name = Akhsitan II

| title = Shah of Shirvan

| image = Copper fulus of Shirvanshah II Ahsitan.jpg

| caption = Copper fulus of II Ahsitan. Museum of History of Azerbaijan, Baku

| reign = 1243/1255 - 1260

| issue = Farrukhzad II

| predecessor = Fariburz III

| successor = Farrukhzad II

| royal house = Kasranid

| father = Fariburz III

| birth_date =

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| death_date = 1260

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Jalal ad-din Akhsitan was the 27th Shirvanshah.

Reign

Zakariya al-Qazwini described him as "ruler of independent region of Shirvan" in his Aja'ib al-Makhluqat.{{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}} He accepted overlordship of Mongols as his coins dating 1256 and 1258 mention Möngke Khagan's name.

His name was also mentioned on a semi-ruined building dated 1257 located between Nağaraxana and Talışnuru villages of Shamakhi. According to Ibn al-Fuwati, he was executed by the order of Hulagu in 1260.{{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 |pages=1067 |language=ar}}

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Category:1260 deaths

Category:Year of birth unknown

Category:13th-century Iranian people

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