Kahak, Delijan
Village in Markazi province, Iran
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kahak (Persian: كهك)[a] is a village in Do Dehak Rural District[3] of the Central District in Delijan County, Markazi province, Iran.
History
During Safavid times, the village enjoyed some importance, and was the site of a large caravanserai, now in ruins.[4]
During the late medieval period, the village was the center of the Qasim-Shahi line of Nizari Isma'ili emams, which transferred its residence from nearby Anjudan to Kahak during the early emamate of Shah Nizar II (1680–1722).[4] His mausoleum in the western end of the village survives to this day, although a restoration in 1966 destroyed many of its original elements and fixtures.[4]
The Nizari emams abandoned Kahak for Kerman province in the mid-18th century, but Shah Khalil Allah III (1792–1817) re-established himself there shortly into his emamate until 1815, when he moved to Yazd.[4] Kahak was the birthplace in 1804 of Shah Khalil Allah's son and successor, Aga Khan I.[4]
