An article by Dr. Nurlan Nasirov, faculty member of the Department of History and Archaeology at Khazar University, titled "Some Notes on the Golden Horde – Shirvanshahs Relations during the Decline of Ilkhanate and Timurid Rule in Azerbaijan" has been published in the international scholarly journal "Golden Horde Review" (Volume 13, Issue 3, October 2025, pp. 322-338). It should be noted that "Golden Horde Review" is a journal indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases and is a Q1 category publication.
The article focuses on the participation of Shirvanshah rulers in political processes and the important role they played during the weakening of the Ilkhanid dynasty (during the Chobanid emirate) and the Timurid rule in Azerbaijan, based on primary sources of the period (primarily in Persian and Arabic), as well as Western, Soviet, and Azerbaijani historiography. Additionally, the activities of clergy and Sufi sheikhs who lived in Azerbaijan during the relations between the Golden Horde Khanate and the Chobanids and Timurids in the mentioned period, as well as their influence on political processes, have been analyzed.
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