Prince Nowruz ibn Argun Aqa Ouirati His political and military role in the Ilkhanid state (683-696 / 1284-1297)

Abstract

The role of Prince Nowruz ibn Argun Aqa al-Awirati came to prominence following the takeover of the Ilkhanate authority in Tabriz in the year 683 AH / 1285 CE. On behalf of Ghazan, who was a boy who did not reach the dream, and had no role in government, where Prince Nowruz was the de facto ruler in Khorasan, this led, of course, to increase his influence, especially in the absence of the role of the top princes of the Ilkhani house in those areas. Weak central authority, due to internal family disputes and war wars His foreign Ilkhanid, even become a more powerful political and military against the influence of the state in Khorasan opposition and most of them a threat to the interests of the central authority in Tabriz and Iran as a whole. The sources do not indicate the reasons behind his opposition to the Ilkhanid government during the reign of Argon ibn Abga and his motives appear to have been in self-defense from the liquidation of some of the senior Mughal princes initiated by the Ilkhan Aragon for various reasons (), especially those who had close relations with Prince Norouz. The suspicions were that he was the first target of narrating these assassinations on the orders of Ilkhan like other princes, so Prince Nowruz began to unite his forces against the central authority in Tabriz and refused to obey the Ilkhan decisions and implement his orders and began to move to extend his authority over the cities of greatest importance. In Khorasan, he tried to form an area ruled almost independently of the orders of the Ilkhans in Tabriz after the Ilkhanist government showed its hostility to him, where he managed to extend his authority over large areas in Khorasan for a limited period, which brought him the wrath of the Mongol Ilkhans in Tabriz, and he sent his armies To fight Prince Nowruz and managed to eliminate him and kill him.