Realm · approximate borders · 1417–1524

Jabrid dynasty

Bedouin dynasty of the Banu Jabr that ruled al-Hasa and al-Qatif from the early 15th century (taking Bahrain and coastal Oman later in the century) until the Muntafiq and the Ottomans displaced them in the 1520s. Dates approximate.

Sources: Wikipedia 'Jabrids'.

See Jabrid dynasty on the map in 1417

On the map: 1417–1524
Capital: al-Hasa (al-Mubarraz)

Rulers named in the sources

Zamil ibn Jabr early 15th century
Ajwad ibn Zamil c. 1470s–1507
Muqrin ibn Zamil 1507–1521

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.