The Jalayirids were a Mongol Jalayir

Jalayir

Jalayir is one of the Darliqin Mongol tribes according to Rashid-al-Din Hamadani's Jami' al-tawarikh. After the Mongol conquest in the 13th century many Jalayirs spread over Central Asia and the Middle East. Jalayirs are one of the founding tribes of Mongolia's largest ethnic group Khalkha....

 dynasty which ruled over Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 and western Persia  after the breakup of the Mongol Khanate

Khanate

Khanate, or Chanat, is a Turco-Mongol-originated word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In modern Turkish, the word used is kağanlık, and in modern Azeri of the republic of Azerbaijan, xanlıq. In Mongolian the word khanlig is used, as in "Khereidiin Khanlig" meaning the Khanate...

 of Persia (or Ilkhanate

Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate , was a Mongol khanate established in Azerbaijan and Persia in the 13th century, considered a part of the Mongol Empire...

) in the 1330s.
The Jalayirid sultanate lasted about fifty years, until disrupted by Tamerlane

Timur

Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...

's conquests and the revolts of the "Black sheep" Turks or Kara Koyunlu

Kara Koyunlu

The Kara Koyunlu or Qara Qoyunlu, also called the Black Sheep Turkomans , were a Shi'ite Oghuz Turkic tribal federation that ruled over the territory comprising the present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, north-western Iran, eastern Turkey and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468.The Kara Koyunlu Turkomans at one...

. After Tamerlane's death in 1405, there was a brief attempt to re-establish the sultanate in southern Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 and Khuzistan

Khuzestan Province

Khuzestan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq's Basra Province and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahwaz and covers an area of 63,238 km²...

. The Jalayirids were finally eliminated by Kara Koyunlu in 1432.

Rulers of Jalayirid Sultanate

• Hasan Buzurg
  Hasan Buzurg
  Shaikh Hasan, called "Buzurg" , was the first of several de facto independent Jalayirid rulers of Iraq and central Iran. He was the son of Husain and Öljetey.-Shaikh Hasan-i Buzurg:...
  
   (1336 - 1356)
• Shaikh Uvais I
  Shaikh Uvais
  Shaikh Uvais, also known as Uways or Oways , was a Jalayirid ruler of Iraq and Azerbaijan . He was the son of Hasan Buzurg and the Chobanid Delsad Katun.-Life:...
  
   (1356 - 1374)
• Hasan
  Hasan (Jalayirids)
  Hasan was briefly Jalayirid ruler . He was the eldest son of Shaikh Uvais.After his father died, Hasan succeeded him, but was never popular among the people. Shortly after he began his reign, he was executed by his amirs, who then put his brother Husain on the throne.-References:*Peter Jackson...
  
   (1374)
• Husain I
  Husain (Jalayirids)
  Husain was a Jalayirid ruler . He was the son of Shaikh Uvais.Following the execution of his brother Hasan, the amirs placed Husain on the throne. Almost immediately he had to deal with an invasion by his brother-in-law Shah Mahmud of the Muzaffarids. Shah Mahmud, who was the son-in-law of Shaikh...
  
   (1374 - 1382)
• Bayazid (1382 - 1383)
• Ahmad
  Ahmad (Jalayirids)
  Sultan Ahmad was a Jalayirid ruler . He was the son of Shaikh Uvais.-Struggle With His Brothers:Ahmad came to power as a result of a plot against his brother Husain. In 1382 he departed from Ardabil, which he had been given control of, and took Tabriz; Husain was captured and executed...
  
   (1383 - 1410)
• Shah Walad (1410-1411)
• Mahmud (1411-1415)
• Uwais II
  Uvais II
  Uvais II was a Jalayirid ruler of Basra . He was the son of Shah Walad.In 1415 Uvais succeeded his brother Mahmud as Jalayirid ruler. During his reign, he conducted two campaigns against the Black Sheep Turkmen in an attempt to recover Baghdad for the Jalayirids. While conducting the second...
  
   (1415-1421)
• Mohammed (1421-1422)
• Mahmud II (1422-1424)
• Husain II (1424-1432)

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