The Buyid (Buwayhid) Dynasty was a Shi'a Daylamite confederation from the Alborz mountains that effectively controlled the Abbasid Caliphate for over a century, becoming kingmakers of medieval Islam.
Extinguished by the Seljuk Turks in 1055–1062 CE: Seljuk sultan Tughril entered Baghdad in December 1055 and deposed the last Buyid ruler of Iraq, al-Malik al-Rahim, while the final Buyid territories in Khuzestan fell by 1062 CE.
Covers the Buyid period as a high point of Shi'a political power before the Seljuk takeover.
A rich narrative of the Khorasan/Transoxiana renaissance under the Samanids and Ghaznavids that gave rise to the first autonomous Iranian dynasties.