Hamdanid dynasty
Hamdanid Dynasty الحمدانيون al-Hamdaniyyun | |||||||||||
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| 890–1004 | |||||||||||
Hamdanid territory in 955 during the rule of Sayf al-Dawla | |||||||||||
| Capital | Mardin (892–895) Mosul (905–990) (in Iraq) Aleppo (944–1002) (in Syria) | ||||||||||
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| Religion | Shia Islam (official) Christianity | ||||||||||
| Government | Hereditary monarchy | ||||||||||
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| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Established | 890 | ||||||||||
• Husayn ibn Hamdan establishes himself as leader of Al-Jazira for the Abbasids. | 895 | ||||||||||
• Sayf al-Dawla establishes himself in Aleppo after successfully countering the Ikhshidids of Egypt. | 944 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1004 | ||||||||||
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| Historical Arab states and dynasties |
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The Hamdanid dynasty (Arabic: الحمدانيون, romanized: al-Ḥamdāniyyūn) was a Shia Muslim Arab dynasty that ruled modern day Northern Mesopotamia and Syria (890–1004). They descended from the ancient Banu Taghlib tribe of Mesopotamia and Arabia.