The New Islamic Dynasties: A chronological and genealogical manual

651 Pages·1996·3.459 MB·English

by  Clifford Edmund Bosworth

The new Islamic dynasties
The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
Series Editor: Carole Hillenbrand
TITLES AVAILABLE OR FORTHCOMING
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Media Arabic Julia Ashtiany Bray
An Introducion to the Hadith John Burton
A History of Islamic Law Noel Coulson
A Short History of the Ismailis Farhad Daftary
Islam: An Historical Introduction (2nd Edition) Gerhad Endress
A History of Christian-Muslim Relations Hugh Goddard
Shi‘ism (2nd Edition) Heinz Halm
Islamic Science and Engineering Donald Hill
Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemparary Practice Mawil
Izzi Dien
Sufism: An Historical Introduction Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Islamic Aesthetics Oliver Leaman
Persian Histrography Julie Scott Meisami
The Muslim of Medieval Italy Alex metcalfe
Muslim in Western Europe (3rd Edition) Jørgen Nielson
Medieval Islamic Medicine Peter Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith
Islamic Jurisprudence Kevin Reinhart and Aron Zysow
Islamic Names Annemarie Schimmel
Mordern Arabic Literature Paul Starkey
Islamic Medicine Manfred Ullman
Islam and Ecnomics Ibrahim Warde
A History of Islamic Spain W. Montgomery Watt and Pierre Cachia
Inroduction to the Qur’an W. Montgomery Watt
Islamic Creeds W. Montgomery Watt
Islamic Philosophy and Thelogy W. Montgomery Watt
Islamic Practical Thought W. Montgomery Watt
Understanding the Qur’an Alford Welch
The new Islamic
dynasties
A chronological and
genealogical manual
CLIFFORD EDMUND BOSWORTH
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
© Clifford Edmund Bosworth, 1996
Transferred to digital print 2012
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations used
Introduction

CHAPTER ONE The Caliphs
The Rightly-Guided or ‘Patriarchal’ or ‘Orthodox’ Caliphs (al-Khulafā’
1.
al-Rāshidūn)
2. The Umayyad Caliphs
1. The Sufyānids
2. The Marwānids
3. The ‘Abbāsid Caliphs
1. The caliphs in Iraq and Baghdad
2. The caliph in Aleppo, Ḥarrān and northern Syria
3. The caliphs in Cairo

CHAPTER TWO spain
4. The Spanish Umayyads
5. The Mulūk al-Ṭawā’if or Reyes de Taifas in Spain
1. The Ḥammūdids of Málaga
2. The Ḥammūdids of Ceuta
3. The ‘Abbādids of Seville
4. The Banū Birzāl in Carmona
5. The Banū Khazrūn in Arcos
6. The Zīrids of Granada
7. The Banū Ṣumādiḥ of Almería
8. The Banū Mujāhid of Denia and Majorca
The rulers in Majorca during the eleventh and early twelfth
9.
centuries
10. The Jahwarids of Cordova
11. The rulers in Cordova of the Almoravid-Almohad interregnum
12. The Afṭasids of Badajoz
13. The Dhu ’l-Nūnids of Toledo
14. The ‘Āmirids of Valencia
15. The rulers in Valencia of the Almoravid-Almohad interregnum
16. The Tujībids in Saragossa
The Hūdids in Saragossa, Huesca, Tudela and Lérida, and,
17.
subsequently, Denia, Tortosa and Calatayud
18. The rulers of Murcia, including the Ṭāhirids and Hūdids
6. The Banū Ghāniya
7. The Naṣrids or Banu ’l-Aḥmar

CHAPTER THREE North Africa
8. The Idrīsids
9. The Rustamids
10. The Midrārids
11. The Aghlabids
12. The Kalbids
13. The Zīrids and Ḥammādids
14. The Almoravids or al-Murābiṭūn
15. The Almohads or al-Muwaḥḥidūn
16. The Marīnids
17. The ‘Abd al-Wādids or Zayyānids or Ziyānids
18. The Ḥafṣids
19. The Waṭṭāsids
20. The Sa‘did Sharīfs
21. The ‘Alawid or Filālī Sharīfs
22. The Ḥusaynid Beys
23. The Qaramānlīs
24. The Sauūsī Chiefs and Rulers

CHAPTER FOUR Egypt and Syria
25. The Ṭūlūnids
26. The Ikhshīdids
27. The Fāṭimids
28. The Mirdāsids
29. The chief dā‘īs of the Nizārī Ismā‘īlīs or Assassins in Syria
30. The Ayyūbids
1. The line in Egypt
2. The line in Damascus
3. The line in Aleppo
4. The line in Ḥimṣ
5. The line in Ḥamāt
6. The line in Diyār Bakr (Mayyāfāriqīn and Jabal Sinjār)
7. The line in Diyār Bakr (Ḥiṣn Kayfā, Āmid and Akhlāṭ)
8. The line in Yemen
The minor branches of the family in Ba‘lbakk, Karak, Bāniyās and
9.
Subayba, and Buṣrā
31. The Mamlūks
1. The Baḥrī line
2. The Burjī line
32. The Ma‘n Amīrs of Lebanon
33. The Shihāb Amīrs of Lebanon
34. The house of Muḥammad ‘Alī

CHAPTER FIVE Iraq and Jazīra before the Seljuqs
35. The Ḥamdānids
1. The line in Mosul and Jazīra
2. The line in Aleppo and northern Syria
36. The Mazyadids
37. The Marwānids
38. The ‘Uqaylids
The line in Jazīrat Ibn ‘Umar, Niṣībīn and Balad of Muḥammad b.
1.
al-Musayyab al-‘Uqaylī
The line in Mosul and later in Jazīrat Ibn ‘Umar, Niṣībīn and Balad,
2.
also of the al-Musayyab line
3. The line in Takrīt of Ma‘n b. al-Muqallad’s descendants
4. The line in Hīt
5. The line in ‘Ukbarā of Ma‘n b. al-Muqallad’s descendants
The other minor branches at Āna and al-Ḥadītha and at Qal‘at
6.
Ja‘bar
39. The Numayrids

CHAPTER SIX The Arabian Peninsula
40. The Carmathian or Qarmaṭī Rulers of the line of Abū Sa‘īd al-Jannābī
41. The Zaydī Imāms of Yemen
1. The early period: the Rassid line
2. The more recent period: the Qāsimid line
42. The Ziyādids
43. The Yu‘firids or Ya‘furids
44. The Najāḥids
45. The Ṣulayḥids
46. The Zuray‘ids or Banu ’1-Karam
47. The Hamdānids
1. The first line of the Banū Ḥātim
2. The line of the Banu ’1-Qubayb
3. The second line of the Banū Ḥātim
48. The Mahdids
49. The Rasūlids