Buya

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Buya was the eponymous founder and patriarch of the Buyid dynasty, a powerful Iranian Shi'a ruling family that controlled much of Iran and Iraq in the 10th–11th centuries.

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Buya canonical 12

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Predicate Object
instanceOf founder of dynasty
historical figure
activeInCentury 10th century
alsoKnownAs Abū Shujāʿ Būya
Būya
associatedDynastyEthnicity Iranian
associatedDynastyReligion Shia Islam
associatedWith Daylamites
associatedWithTitleSystem al-Dawla honorific titles used by his sons
children Aḥmad ibn Būya
ʿAlī ibn Būya
linked to: Ali ibn Buya

Ḥasan ibn Būya
countryOfOrigin Iran
dynastyFoundedRuledPeriod 10th century
11th century
dynastyFoundedRuledRegion Iran
Iraq
eponymOf Buyid dynasty
ethnicity Iranian
linked to: Iranian peoples
founded Buyid dynasty
historicalContext decline of Abbasid Caliphate
historicalSignificance founder of a major Iranian Shia ruling house
houseFoundedControlled central Iran
southern Iraq
western Iran
knownFor being eponymous ancestor of the Buyids
legacy established Buyid family as de facto rulers over Abbasid caliphs
nameInArabic بويا
nameInPersian بویه
notableDescendant Muʿizz al-Dawla
linked to: Muizz al-Dawla

Rukn al-Dawla
ʿImād al-Dawla
politicalAlignment pro-Shia
regionOfActivity northern Iran
religion Shia Islam
role patriarch of the Buyid dynasty
socialBackground Daylamite military milieu
sourceType medieval Islamic historiography

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Referenced by (12)

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House of Buya foundedBy Buya
Ali ibn Buya father Buya
Muizz al-Dawla father Buya
Rukn al-Dawla father Buya
Buya Hamka honorific Buya
subject linked to: Abdul Malik
Buyid family founder Buya
Buyid family namedAfter Buya