Anushirvan was the second son of
Lashkari ibn Musa, probably by his first wife, along with three other brothers. Lashkari ruled
Arran for fifteen years in what is described by the Ottoman historian
Münejjim Bashi as a troubled reign. When he died in 1049, Anushirvan succeeded him, but he was still underage, and real power lay with the
chamberlain (
hajib) Abu Mansur, who served as
regent. The new regime was quickly opposed by a large faction among the populace. Münejjim Bashi, summarizing a now lost local chronicle, reports that this was because Abu Mansur immediately agreed to surrender several frontier fortresses to the
Kakhetians, the
Georgians and
Byzantines, in order "to restrain their greed for Arran". This decision provoked the leading men to revolt under the leadership of al-Haytham ibn Maymun al-Bais, chief of the tanners in
Shamkur. According to
Vladimir Minorsky, this movement represented an uprising of the town notables against the senior bureaucratic caste. Abu Mansur, then residing at Shamkur, attempted to arrest al-Haytham, but al-Haytham and his
ghilman (servants) "drew their daggers" and declared for Anushirvan's great-uncle Abu'l-Aswar, ruler of
Dvin. Abu'l-Aswar occupied Shamkur, settled the troubled situation there, and went on to take up his residence in the capital, Ganja. He arrested Anushirvan, whose reign ended abruptly after two months, as well as Abu Mansur and his relations. Abu'l-Aswar's long reign (1049–67) would prove to be the zenith of the Shaddadids. ==References==