The tribe Malikshah did not descend from a single strain, but  it is a mixture of the ancient local inherent tribes in history…

such as the Ilamites  and Sassanids and Alkhorshidians  and Sura Mirites  and others, and each group of them had initially  an independent prince in his region and the mastermind of the affairs and among them coexisted a group of communities such as Luks, Lur and Algiytol and Albaoh and others who were counted as parts of them until the integration of their social structure. Hence a powerful tribe had been formed from them  under the name of Malikshah. As for their naming them as Malikshah it is traced to the  Seljukian age during the reign of King Covenant Seljuk Malikshah bin Alp Arsalan (Malikshah I) who ruled in 465-485 AH / 1072-1092 The Malikshahites currently stationed in thirty-nine villages within the region of Malikshah or Arkuaz belonging to Mehran division  of the province of Ilam and their number , according to census of the  year 1369 / 1950 is approximately six thousand houses with thirty-five thousand people.