Uqaylid dynasty
Uqaylid dynasty إمارة بنو عقيل | |||||||||||
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| 990–1096 | |||||||||||
Uqaylid Emirate at its greatest extent | |||||||||||
| Capital | Mosul | ||||||||||
| Official languages | Arabic | ||||||||||
| Religion | Shia Islam | ||||||||||
| Government | Emirate | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 990 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1096 | ||||||||||
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| Historical Arab states and dynasties |
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The Uqaylid dynasty (Arabic: العقيليون, romanized: al-ʿUqayliyyūn) was a Shia Arab dynasty with several lines that ruled in various parts of Al-Jazira, northern Syria and Iraq in the late tenth and eleventh centuries. The main line, centered in Mosul, ruled from 990 to 1096.