Realm · approximate borders · 935–969

Ikhshidid dynasty

Turkic governors of Egypt for the Abbasids, in practice autonomous: Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid held Egypt and Palestine from 935 and, after the 944–947 settlement with the Hamdanids, southern Syria with Damascus; the Fatimids took Fustat in 969. They also held nominal suzerainty over the Hejaz.

Sources: Wikipedia 'Ikhshidid dynasty'.

See Ikhshidid dynasty on the map in 946

On the map: 935–969
Capital: Fustat

Rulers named in the sources

Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid 935–946
Unujur 946–961
Ali 961–966
Abu al-Misk Kafur 966–968
Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad 968–969

States of the Middle East, 2400 BCE–1886

Among the smaller states of Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and the South Caucasus were Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (Ebla, Mari, Yamhad, Kizzuwatna, Arzawa, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Mannaea), the city-kingdoms of Cyprus, Characene, Elymais, Hatra, Kinda and Muhammad's state at Medina; the Caucasian kingdoms and emirates of the 9th–12th centuries (Tbilisi, Lori, Kakheti-Hereti, Syunik, Kars) and the dynasties of the 'Iranian intermezzo' (Sallarids, Rawwadids, Hasanwayhids, Kakuyids, Marwanids, Uqaylids, Mirdasids, Mazyadids, Ikhshidids); the Burids of Damascus, the Nizari Ismaili castles, the atabegs of Azerbaijan, Fars, Luristan and Kerman; the eastern Anatolian beyliks (Saltukids, Mengujekids, Shah-Armens, Artuqids, Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Erzincan, Tacettin, Lâdik, Alaiye); the Mamluk pashas of Baghdad; Arabian states from the Sulayhids to the Jabrids, Bani Khalid, Kathiri, Mahra and Lahej; and the South Caucasus khanates of 1747–1828. Few pre-modern sources describe frontiers.