The Afrāsiyābids (r. 750-60/1349-59), also known as Banū Afrāsiyāb or Āl-i Afrāsiyāb, as well as Chalābīs or Chalāvīs, were a family of ispahbad s (military chiefs or local princes), from Māzandarān, a northwestern Iranian province on the Caspian coast. Their political influence grew in the vacuum that followed the demise of the Ilkhānids (r. 654-754/1256-1353) in Iran. They emerged as rulers of Āmul and its surroundings in 750/1349, when a scion of the family murdered the sitting ruler, the Bāwandid Fakhr al-