Realm · approximate borders · 1047–1138

Sulayhid dynasty

Ismaili dynasty founded by Ali al-Sulayhi in 1047, allied to the Fatimids; at its height (1063–1067) it ruled most of Yemen. It held the northern highlands (1047–1055) and later the central highlands from Sana'a to Dhu Jibla (1066–1138, under Queen Arwa from 1084).

Sources: Wikipedia 'Sulayhid dynasty'.

See Sulayhid dynasty on the map in 1066

On the map: 1047–1138
Capital: Sana'a; Sana'a, then Dhu Jibla (from c. 1087)

Rulers named in the sources

Ali al-Sulayhi 1047–1067
Ahmad al-Mukarram 1067–1084
Arwa al-Sulayhi 1084–1138

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.