Mirdasid dynasty
Mirdasid dynasty مرداسيون | |||||||||
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| 1024–1080 | |||||||||
Map of the Mirdasid emirate at its zenith during the rule of Salih ibn Mirdas in 1025 | |||||||||
| Capital | Aleppo | ||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic | ||||||||
| Religion | Shia Islam | ||||||||
| Government | Emirate | ||||||||
| Emir | |||||||||
• 1024–1029 | Salih ibn Mirdas | ||||||||
• 1029–1038 | Shibl al-Dawla Nasr | ||||||||
• 1042–1062 | Mu'izz al-Dawla Thimal | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1024 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1080 | ||||||||
| Currency | Dirham, dinar | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Syria Lebanon | ||||||||
| Historical Arab states and dynasties |
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The Mirdasid dynasty (Arabic: المرداسيون, romanized: al-Mirdāsiyyīn), also called the Banu Mirdas, was an Arab Shia Muslim dynasty which ruled an Aleppo-based emirate in northern Syria and the western Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) more or less continuously from 1024 until 1080.