The following article includes a list of successive Islamic states and Muslim dynasties beginning with the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570âÂÂ632 CE) and the early Muslim conquests that spread Islam outside of the Arabian Peninsula, and continuing through to the present day.
The first-ever establishment of an Islamic polity goes back to the Islamic State of Medina, which was established by Muhammad in the city of Medina in 622 CE. Following his death in 632 CE, his immediate successors established the Rashidun Caliphate.
After that Muslim dynasties rose; some of these dynasties established notable and prominent Muslim empires, such as the Umayyad Empire and later the Abbasid Empire, Ottoman Empire centered around Anatolia, the Safavid Empire of Persia, and the Mughal Empire in India.
By land area
Middle East and North Africa
Mesopotamia and Levant (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)
- Umayyad Caliphate (661âÂÂ750; based in Damascus)
- Abbasid Caliphate (750âÂÂ1258; based in Baghdad)
- Ayyubid Dynasty (1171âÂÂ1341; based in Damascus and Aleppo)
- Zengid Dynasty (1127âÂÂ1250; based in Aleppo)
- Annazids (991âÂÂ1258; Kurdistan)
- Burid Dynasty (1104âÂÂ1154)
- Hamdanid dynasty (890âÂÂ1004; based in Aleppo)
- Uqaylid Dynasty (990âÂÂ1096; Syria, Iraq)
- Bani Assad (990âÂÂ1081; Iraq)
- Numayrid (990âÂÂ1081; Syria, Turkey)
- Marwanid (983âÂÂ1085; Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Iraq)
- Mirdasid dynasty (1024âÂÂ1080; Syria)
- Artuqids (1101âÂÂ1409; Syria, Turkey, Iraq)
- Baban (1649âÂÂ1851; Iraq)
- Soran Emirate (1816âÂÂ1835; Iraq)
- Emirate of Hakkari (1380sâÂÂ1845; Turkey, Syria)
- Bahdinan (1339âÂÂ1843; Iraq)
- Bohtan (1330âÂÂ1855)
- Principality of Bitlis (1182âÂÂ1847)
- Hadhabani (906âÂÂ1070)
- Mukriyan (1050âÂÂ1500)
- Qarghuyah, Emirate of Aleppo (969âÂÂ977)
- Nizari Ismaili State (1090âÂÂ1256; Iraq, Iran, Syria)
- Emirate of Aleppo (1004âÂÂ1016)
- Assaf dynasty (1306âÂÂ1591; Lebanon)
- Harfush dynasty (1517âÂÂ1865; Lebanon, Syria)
- Principality of Basra (1597-1668; Iraq)
- Emirate of Muntafiq (1530-1914; Southern Iraq)
- Kingdom of Khaza'il (1534-1921; Iraq, Iran, Kuwait)
- Mamluk Principality of Iraq (1704âÂÂ1831)
- Emirate of Mosul (905âÂÂ1096, 1127âÂÂ1222, 1254âÂÂ1383, 1758âÂÂ1918)
- Emirate of Transjordan (1921âÂÂ1946; Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq)
- Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920)
- Kingdom of Iraq (1921âÂÂ1958)
- Kingdom of Jordan (1921âÂÂpresent)
Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Qatar
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Oman
Yemen
Regional
North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia)
Algeria
Egypt
Tunisia
Morocco
Libya
Horn of Africa
Somalia
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Djibouti
Persian Plateau
Iran
Anatolia (Turkey)
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Georgia
Caucasus
Afghanistan
Indian subcontinent
Bangladesh
Pakistan
India
Southern Europe
Spain & Portugal
France
Umayyad Caliph of Cordova
Italy
Gibraltar
Sahel and Subsaharan Africa
Sudan, South Sudan
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Mali
Regional
Cameroon
Burkina Faso
Chad
Central African Republic
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Senegal
Guinea
Togo
Sierra Leone
East Africa ("Swahili Coast")
Tanzania
Kenya
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Malawi
Mozambique
Indian Ocean Region
Maldives
Mayotte
Comoros
Madagascar
Eastern Europe (Balkan Region)
Ukraine, Moldova
Romania, Bulgaria
Greece
Albania, Bosnia
Ural Region, Siberia (Russia)
Central Asia, East Asia
Transoxania (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan)
Mongolia and China
Southeast Asia
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
Philippines
Thailand
Cambodia, Vietnam
See also
References
Bibliography