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Bahram ibn Ardashir al-Majusi was a Buyid officer of Zoroastrian extraction who during his early career served the Buyid ruler Adud al-Dawla, and then later the latter's son Samsam al-Dawla.

Biography

Bahram was the son of a certain Ardashir and belonged to a Zoroastrian family.{{sfn|Kraemer|1992|p=198}} He is first mentioned as one of the secretaries of the Buyid king Adud al-Dawla, and in 976/7 acted as a negotiator for the latter; after Adud al-Dawla had defeated his cousin Izz al-Dawla at Ahvaz, Bahram was sent to negotiate with Izz al-Dawla and gave the latter permission to retire and settle in Syria, then under Hamdanid control.However, on his way to Syria, Izz al-Dawla became convinced by Abu Taghlib, the Hamdanid ruler of Mosul, to go fight again against his cousin. On May 29, 978, Izz al-Dawla along with Abu Taghlib invaded the domains of his Adud al-Dawla and fought against him near Samarra. Bahram also participated in this war;{{sfn|Kraemer|1992|p=198}} Izz al-Dawla was once again defeated and was captured and executed at the orders of Adud al-Dawla.{{sfn|Kennedy|2004|p=230}}{{sfn|Turner|2006|p=16}}Bahram along with the rest of the Buyid army then marched to Mosul and captured the city,{{sfn|Kennedy|2004|pp=272, 230}} which forced Abu Taghlib to flee to Byzantine territory in Anzitene where he asked for aid. Meanwhile, the Buyid army was completing the conquest of Diyar Bakr and Diyar Mudar;{{sfn|Donohue|2003|pp=68-69}} The important Hamdanid city of Mayyafariqin was shortly captured by them, which forced Abu Taghlib to flee to Rahba from where he tried to negotiate peace with Adud al-Dawla.{{sfn|Kennedy|2004|p=272}}During the same period, Bahram along with other Buyid officers, were sent to arrest Izz al-Dawla's former vizier Ibn Baqiyya.{{sfn|Kraemer|1992|p=198}} In 983, Bahram was sent under an army to fight the Kurdish Marwanid ruler Abu Shuja Badh but was defeated. During the reign of Adud al-Dawla's son Samsam al-Dawla, Bahram served as his deputy, but was executed in 986.{{sfn|Kraemer|1992|p=195}}

References

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Sources

• {{The Buwayhid Dynasty in Iraq}}
• {{The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates|edition = Second}}
• ENCYCLOPEDIA, Kraemer, Joel L., Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: The Cultural Revival During the Buyid Age, BRILL,weblink 1992, 9789004097360,
• ENCYCLOPEDIA, Turner, John P., 'Adud al-Dawla, 16,weblink 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index, Taylor & Francis, 9780415966917,