Notices in the chronicles of this localised line of Atabegs are only sporadic, and numismatic evidences have not thus far been found,[4] so it is difficult to reconstruct their chronology and genealogy.[4] Bosworth says that they were a dynasty of Oghuz Turk origin that started with Aq Sunqur Ahmadili, who was presumably a freedman of the commander of the Seljuq Empire, Ahmadil ibn Ibrahim.[4] Aq Sunqur Ahmadili became Atagberg of the Seljuk Prince Dawud ibn Mahmud.[5] His son Aq-Sonqur II was Ataberg for the infant son of Muhammad ibn Mas'ud in 1159, and in 1160 tried to impose him in place of Arslan-Shah (Seljuk sultan), who was supported by the Eldiguzids for the Seljuk succession, but in vain.[5]
A female member of the family, Sulafa Khatun, was ruling Maragheh until these places were sacked by the Mongols in 1221. In 1225, Sulafa Khatun married the KhwarazmshahJalal al-Din Mangburni, who administered her territories. In 1231, the region fell to the Mongol armies.
Rulers
Aq Sunqur I, 1122-1134
Ak Sunkur II, 1134-1169
Ala al-Din Korpe Arslan and Rukn al-Din, 1134-1173
^Boyle (Ed.), J. A. (1958). The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 188, Map 4. ISBN 9781139054973.
^Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī, Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī al- (1054-1122); texte, Al-QĀSIM ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī (Abū Muḥammad) Auteur du (1201–1300). "Les Maqâmât d'Aboû Moḥammad al-Qâsim ibn ʿAlî al-Ḥarîrî".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Shah, Amina (1980). The assemblies of al-Hariri : fifty encounters with the Shaykh Abu Zayd of Seruj. London : Octagon Press. pp. 22–27. ISBN 978-0-900860-86-7.
^ a b c d eClifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, Columbia University, 1996. pp 198:"The Ahmadilis"
^ a bBoyle (Ed.), J. A. (1958). The Cambridge History of Iran: Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 170–171. ISBN 9781139054973.
Bibliography
Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1976). The mediaeval islamic underworld: the Banu Sasan in Arabic society and literature. The Arabic jargon texts. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-04502-3.