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History of the Arab States
Rashidun	632-661
Umayyads	661-750
Abbasids	750-1258
Fatimids	909–1171
	AD
Tulunids	868-905
Hamdanid dynasty	890-1004
Ikhshidid dynasty	935-969
Uqaylid Dynasty	990-1096
Zengid dynasty	1127-1250
Ayyubid dynasty	1171-1246
Bahri Mamluks	1250-1382
Burji Mamluks	1382–1517
Muhallabids	771-793
Rustamid dynasty	776-909
Idrisid dynasty	788-985
Aghlabids	800-909
Almoravid dynasty	1073-1147
Almohad dynasty	1147-1269
Hafsid dynasty	1229-1574
Marinid dynasty	1258-1420
Wattasid dynasty	1420-1547

Hamdanid dynasty at its Greatest Extent

The Hamdanid dynasty (Arabic: حمدانيون‎) was a Shia Muslim Arab dynasty of northern Iraq (Al-Jazirah) and Syria (890-1004). They claimed to have been descended from the ancient Banu Taghlib Christian tribe of Mesopotamia and northern Arabia.

The Hamdanid dynasty was founded by Hamdan ibn Hamdun (after whom it is named), when he was appointed governor of Mardin in SE Anatolia by the Abbasid Caliphs in 890.

His son Abdallah (904-929) was in turn appointed governor of Mosul in northern Iraq (906) and even governed Baghdad (914). His sons were installed as governors in Mosul and Aleppo.

The rule of Hassan Nasir ad-Daula (929-968), governor of Mosul and Diyarbakır, was sufficiently tyrannical to cause him to be deposed by his own family.

His lineage still ruled in Mossul, a heavy defeat by the Buyids in 979 notwithstanding, until 990. After this, their area of control in northern Iraq was divided between the Uqailids and the Marwanids.

View of the Citadel of Aleppo with the entrance bridge.

Ali Saif al-Daula 'Sword of the State' ruled (945-967) Northern Syria from Aleppo, and became the most important opponent of the Byzantine Empire's (Christian) expansion. His court was a centre of culture, thanks to its nurturing of Arabic literature, but it lost this status after the Byzantine conquest of Aleppo.

To stop the Byzantine advance,put Aleppo under the suzerainty of the Fatimids in Egypt, but in 1003 the Fatimids deposed the Hamdanids anyway.