Wikipedia list article
This article includes a list of successive Muslim states and dynasties from the rise of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and of the Early Muslim conquests which began in 622 CE and continues through to this current day.
] and the Indian subcontinent. In the decades after his death, the caliphate founded by his earliest successors, called the Rashidun caliphate, was succeeded by the Umayyad caliphate and later the Abbasid caliphate.
While the caliphates gradually fractured and fell, other Muslim dynasties rose; some of these dynasties grew into Islamic empires, with some of the most notable being the Safavid dynasty, Ottoman Empire, and Mughal Empire.
Regional empires
Iran
Shah Ismail I, founder of Safavid dynasty
Mesopotamia and Levant (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine)
- Ayyubid dynasty (1171-1260, based in Damascus and Aleppo)
- Umayyad caliphate (661-750, based in Damascus)
- Abbasid caliphate (750-1258, based in Baghdad)
- Zengid dynasty (1127-1250, based in Aleppo)
- Burid dynasty (1104-1154)
- Hamdanid dynasty (890-1004, based in Aleppo)
- Uqaylid dynasty (990-1096; Syria, Iraq)
- Bani Assad (990-1081, Iraq)
- Numayrid (990-1081; Syria, Turkey)
- Marwanid (983-1085; Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Iraq)
- Mirdasid dynasty (1024-1080, Syria)
- Artuqids (1101-1409; Syria, Turkey, Iraq)
- Baban (1649-1851, Iraq)
- Soran (1816-1835, Iraq)
- Emirate of Hakkari (1380s-1845; Turkey, Syria)
- Bahdinan (1339-1843, Iraq)
- Bohtan (1330-1855)
- Principality of Bitlis (1182-1847)
- Hadhabani (906-1070)
- Mukriyan (1050-1500)
- Qarghuyah, Emirate of Aleppo (969-977)
- Nizari Ismaili state (1090-1256; Iraq, Iran, Syria)
- Emirate of Aleppo, Lulu' dynasty (1004-1016)
- Assaf dynasty (1306-1591, Lebanon)
- Mamluk dynasty of Iraq (1734-1831)
- Emirate of Mosul (905-1096, 1127-1222, 1254-1383, 1758-1918)
- Emirate of Transjordan (1921-1946; Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq)
- Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920)
- Kingdom of Iraq (1921-1958)
- Kingdom of Jordan (1921-present)
Middle East (Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf region)
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Qatar
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Oman
Yemen
Regional
Anatolia (Turkey)
Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha
West Africa (West Africa, Sahel)
Regional
Cameroon
Benin
Burkina Faso
Chad
Sudan, South Sudan
Central African Republic
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegambia
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Togo
Sierra Leone
North Africa (Maghreb region)
Libya
Tunisia
Algeria
Morocco (Western Sahara, Maghreb, Ifriqiya)
Horn of Africa
Somalia
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Djibouti
East Africa
Tanzania
Kenya
Republic Democratic Congo
Malawi
Mozambique
Indian Ocean Region
Maldives
Mayotte
Comoros
Madagascar
Cyprus
Southern Europe
Spain & Portugal
France
Umayyad Caliph of Cordova
Aghlabids & Fatimids
Italy
Gibraltar
Malta
Eastern Europe (Balkan Region)
Ukraine, Moldova
Romania, Bulgaria
Greece
Albania
Ural Region, Siberia (Russia)
Caucasus
Russia
Armenia
Georgia
Azerbaijan
Central Asia, East Asia
Transoxania (Uzbekistan, Kirgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan)
China
South Asia
India
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Southeast Asia
Malay Archipelago (East Indies) (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei)
Philippines
Approximate extent of the Muslim sultanates in the
Philippines
Thailand
Indochina
See also