Realm · approximate borders · 990–1096

Uqaylid dynasty

Arab dynasty of Mosul controlling the Jazira (Nisibis, Sinjar, at times Harran and Raqqa); its height under Muslim ibn Quraysh (1061–1085), who briefly held Aleppo. Mosul passed to the Seljuks in 1096.

Sources: Wikipedia 'Uqaylid dynasty'.

See Uqaylid dynasty on the map in 990

On the map: 990–1096
Capital: Mosul

Rulers named in the sources

Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab 990–996
Qirwash 1001–1050
Quraysh 1052–1061
Muslim ibn Quraysh 1061–1085

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.