Yazidids

The dynasty was named after Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani, an Abbasid Governor of Arminiyah. Yazidid dynasty was first generation of whole independent Shirvanshahs. Dynasty ruled both Shirvan and Layzan, until latter invaded Shamakhy and united crowns.{{cite book|authorlink=Aram Ter-Ghevondyan |last=Ter-Ghewondyan |first=Aram |others=Transl. Nina G. Garsoïan |title=The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia |publisher=Livraria Bertrand |location=Lisbon |year=1976 |url=http://rbedrosian.com/Ref/Aeba/aebatoc.html |oclc=490638192 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014040744/http://rbedrosian.com/Ref/Aeba/aebatoc.html |archivedate=2013-10-14 }} The dynasty was a vassal and tributary state to Sallarids, Sajids and others. The Mazyadid reign is largely unexplored due to lack of sources. Sometimes numismatic evidences are the only sources about reign and existence of shahs.

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• Mazyad b. Za'ida
• Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani, Ostikan (d. {{circa|801}})
• Muhammad ibn Yazid, Ostikan ({{circa|802/803}})
• Asad ibn Yazid al-Shaybani, Ostikan (d. {{circa|820}})
• {{Tree list/final branch}} Khalid ibn Yazid al-Shaybani, Ostikan (802–844)
• Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Shaybani, Ostikan ({{circa|844–859)}}
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px Haytham I, Shirvanshah (861–?)
• 15px Muhammad I, Shirvanshah
• 15px Haytham II, Shirvanshah
• 15px Ali I, Shirvanshah (?–917)
• Abbas
• Abu Bakr
• {{Tree list/final branch}} 15px Yazid ibn Khalid, Layzanshah (861–?)
• 15px Muhammad I, Layzanshah (?–917)
• 15px Yazid I (917–948)
• Abd ul-Badr ibn Yazid
• Ahmad, Emir of Derbent ({{Circa|944}})
• Abul-Haytham
• 15px Muhammad II — Layzanshah (917–948), Tabasaranshah (917–948), Shirvanshah (948–956)
• Haytham ibn Muhammad, Tabasaranshah (948–?)
• 15px Ahmad, Layzanshah (948–956), Shirvanshah (948–981)
• 15px Muhammad III (981–991)
• 15px Yazid II (991–1027)
• Became ancestor of Kasranids
• Haytham ibn Ahmad, Tabasaranshah (?–1025)
• {{Tree list/final branch}}Ahmad, Ostikan ({{circa|811-812}})

{{Tree list/end}}The Mazyadids were succeeded by Kasranids which is regarded as the start of the cultural Persianization of Shirvan.

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• {{EI2|last1=Barthold|first1=W.|authorlink1=Vasily Bartold|last2=Bosworth|first2=C.E.|authorlink2=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|volume=9|title=S̲h̲īrwān S̲h̲āh|pages=488–489|year=1997a|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/shirwan-shah-SIM_6968}}
• {{EI2|last1=Barthold|first1=W.|last2=Bosworth|first2=C.E.|year=1997b|volume=9|title=S̲h̲īrwān|pages=487–488|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/shirwan-shah-SIM_6968}}
• {{cite book | last = Bosworth | first = C. E. | title = The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual | year = 1996 | publisher = Columbia University Press | location=New York City | isbn = 0-231-10714-5 }}
• {{cite encyclopedia | title = Šervānšāhs | last = Bosworth | first = C. E. | url = https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/servansahs | editor-last = | editor-first = | editor-link = | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica | pages = | location = | publisher = | year = 2011 | isbn = }}
• {{Cambridge History of Iran|volume=4|last=Madelung|first=Wilferd|author-link= Wilferd Madelung|chapter=Minor dynasties of northern Iran|pages=198–250}}
• {{cite book | last=Minorsky | first=Vladimir | author-link = Vladimir Minorsky | title = A History of Sharvān and Darband in the 10th-11th Centuries | year=1958 | publisher=W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd. | location=Cambridge }}
• {{The Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia}}

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