Realm · approximate borders · 961–1150

Mazyadid dynasty (Banu Mazyad)

Arab Banu Asad dynasty ruling an autonomous emirate between Kufa and Hit, from c. 961 under the Buyids and then the Seljuks; al-Hilla, founded as their camp, became the capital.

Sadaqa I (1086–1108) was the strongest ruler; the emirate ended c. 1150–1160. Sources: Wikipedia 'Banu Mazyad'.

See Mazyadid dynasty (Banu Mazyad) on the map in 961

On the map: 961–1150
Capital: al-Hilla

Rulers named in the sources

Ali ibn Mazyad c. 961–1018
Dubays I 1018–1082
Sadaqa I 1086–1108
Dubays II 1108–1135

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.