Muzaffar Shah founds the Muzaffarid dynasty in Iran

1335

As the Ilkhanate fractured after Abu Said's death, Mubariz al-Din Muhammad seized Isfahan and Fars, establishing a Persian dynasty that would patronize poets - most famously Hafiz of Shiraz, the supreme lyricist of the Persian language - and survive until Timur's armies swallowed it. The fragmentation of Iran into warring successor states had begun.