Al-Fadl III bin al-Fadl II
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Al-Fadl III bin al-Fadl II was the last Shaddadid
Shaddadid
The Shaddadids were a Kurdish dynasty who ruled in various parts of Armenia and Arran from 951-1174 AD. They were established in Dvin. Through their long tenure in Armenia, they often intermarried with the Bagratuni royal family of Armenia....

 ruler of Ganja
Ganja, Azerbaijan
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, which is in current-day Azerbaijan. He ruled 466-468 AH/1073-1075 AD. The realm was then absorbed by the Great Seljuq
Great Seljuq Empire
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s: Shaddadids continued to rule in other parts of Armenia
Armenia
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, but the Shaddadid Ganja was added to the realm of the Great Seljuqs.

When the Shaddadids were in full occupation of Arran, the Persian
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 poet Qatran Tabrizi
Qatran Tabrizi
Abū-Mansūr Qatrān-i Tabrīzī was a royal Persian poet.He was born in Sahar near Arrah, bihar Tabriz and was the most famous panegyrist of his time in Iran. His full name according to an old manuscript handwritten by the famous poet Anvari Abivardi is Abu Mansur Qatran al-Jili al-Azerbaijani...

, praises the Shaddadid Amir Fazlun bin Fazl II b. Abi-Aswar (1073-75 CE) for his descent on the maternal side from the Bagratunis, indicating further Muslim
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-Christian
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