Shapur of Ray was aSasanian military officer from theMihran family. The cityRay in his name was the seat of the Mihran family.^[1]

According toAbu Hanifa Dinawari (d. 896), Shapur was the governor of the twoMesopotamian districts of Khutarniyah andBabylonia duringKavad I's reign.^[1] According toal-Tabari, he held the rank of "Supreme Commander of the Land" (iṣbahbadh al-bilād).Ferdowsi records him being recalled by Kavad I to destroy the powerfulSukhra ofKaren family, who was also Shapur Razi's rival. Shapur Razi defeated and captured Sukhra inShiraz. The Mihran-Karen rivalry became proverbial in the contemporary Sasanian society, as reflected in the expression "Sukhra's wind has died away, and a wind belonging to Mihran has now started to blow".^[1]

He briefly served as the governor (marzban) ofPersian Armenia from 483 to 484.^[2]

• Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008).Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York: I.B. Tauris.ISBN 978-1-84511-645-3.

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