Buzurgmihr was the head of the royal council, the head of the personal bodyguards of the king and the chief official of the court itself (Bahār, 1/52; Buzurgmihr, 303–304). Banākatī (p. 61) considers him to have been the son of a certain Sūkhrā, while Christensen (Le règne, 27–29; L’Iran, 294–295), citing al-Yaʿqūbī and al-Ṭabarī, states that Sūkhrā Kārin (Sukhrā or its variants) was the name of a powerful member of a noble family originally from Shīrāz and he had a son called Zar…