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Early Islamic Rule (Arabia, Iraq, Persia)
- Prophet Muḥammad’s Time
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- Caliphs in Iraq
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- North Africa & Iberian Peninsula
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- Iraq, Jazīra, Lebanon
  - Hamdānids (Jazīra, N. Syria)
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  - The ʿUqaylids (Iraq, Jazīra, N Syria)
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  - Maʾn Amīrs (S Lebanon)
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- Arabian Peninsula
  - Carmathian (Qarmaṭī) Rulers (Syria, Iraq, E Arabia)
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  - Zurayʿids or Banū ʾl-Karam (S Yemen: Aden)
  - Hamdānids (N Yemen: Ṣanʿāʾ)
  - Mahdids (Yemen: Zabīd)
  - Rasūlids (S Yemen, Tihāma: Taʿizz)
  - Ṭāhirds (S Yemen, Tihāma: al-Miqrāna, Juban)
  - Āl al-Julanda (Oman)
  - Mukramids (Coastal Oman)
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  - Āl Bū Saʿīd (Oman: Muscat; Zanzibar)
  - Āl Saʿūd (Najd, Ḥijāz, modern Saudi Arabia)
  - Hāshimite Sharīfs (Mecca, Ḥijāz, Fertile Crescent)
  - Āl Rashīd (N Najd)
- West Africa
  - Keita Kings (Mali, N Guinea, Gambia, Senegal)
  - Kings of Songhay (Mali: Savannah Zone)
  - Rulers of Kanem & Bornu (E-Central Sudan)
  - Fulānī Rulers in Hausaland, Sokoto (N Nigeria, Niger Valley)
- East Africa & Horn of Africa
  - Sultans of Kilwa (Tanzanian coastland)
  - Nabhānī Rulers of Pate (Island of Pate, modern Kenyan coastland)
  - Mazrūʿī Liwalis of Mombasa (Mobasa, Pemba Island)
  - Āl Bū Saʿīd (Zanzibar & E Africa coastland)
  - Sultans of Harar (SE Ethiopia)
- Western Persia, Central Asia & the Fertile Crescent
  - Sharwan Shāhs (E Transcaucasia: Yazīdiyya)
  - Hāshimids (Bāb Abwāb/Darband and its hinterland)
  - Justānids (Daylam: Rūdbār-Shāh Rūd valleys)
  - Sājids (Azerbaijan)
  - Musāfirids or Sallārids (Daylam: Ṭārum and Samīran; Azerbaijan; Arrān)
  - Rawwādids (Azerbaijan: Tabrīz)
  - Shāddādids (Arrān, E. Armenia)
  - Dulafids (Central Jibāl: Karaj)
  - Būyids or Buwayhids (N, W, S Persia; Iraq)
  - Ḥasanūyids or Ḥasanawayhid (S Kurdistan)
  - ʿAnnāzids (S Kurdistan, Luristān)
  - Kākūyids or Kākawayhids (Jibāl & Kurdistan)
  - Dābūyid Ispahbadhs (Gīlān; Rūyān, Ṭabaristān coastlands: Sārī)
  - Bāwandid Ispahbadhs (Ṭabaristan, Gīlān highlands)
  - Ziyārids (Ṭabaristan, Gurgān)
  - Seljuqs (Persia, Iraq, Syria)
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  - Zangids (Jazīra & Syria)
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- Eastern Persia, Central Asia & the Fertile Crescent
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- Persia: After the Mongols
  - Karts or Kurts (E Khurāsān, N Afghanistan)
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- Anatolia
  - Seljuqs of Rūm (W-Central Anatolia: Konya; most of Anatolia)
  - Dānishmendids (N-Central Anatolia; E Anatolia)
  - Mengüjekids (N Anatolia: Erzincan, Divriği, Kemakh)
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  - Qarasī or Karasī Oghullarï (SW Anatolia)
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  - Beys of Alanya (S Anatolia coastland)
  - Ashraf or Eshref Oghullari (S-Central Anatolia)
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  - Eretna Oghullarï (NE Anatolia)
  - Qāḍī Burhān al-Dīn Oghullarï (NE Anatolia)
  - Tāj al-Dīn Oghullarï (Black Sea Coast hinterland: Canik/Jānīk)
  - Ramaḍan Oghullarï (Cilicia, Little Armenia)
  - Dulghadïr Oghullarï or Dhū ʾl-Qadrids (SE Anatolia)
  - Ottomans (NW Anatolia, Balkans, MENA, Eritrea)
- Central Asia, Far East & Eastern Europe
  - Mongols & the later Yüan Dynasty of China (Mongolia, China)
  - Chaghatayids (Transoxania; Mogholistan: Semirechye, E Turkestan)
  - Il Khānids (Persia, Iraq, E & Central Anatolia)
  - Khāns of the Golden Horde (W Siberia, Khwārazm, S Russia)
  - Giray Khāns (Crimea, S Ukraine)
  - Khāns of Astrakhān (Lower Volga & adjacent steppelands)
  - Khāns of Qāzān (Middle Volga)
  - Khāns of Qāsimov (Ryazan to SE of Moscow)
- Central Asia & Afghanistan: After the Mongols
  - Shïbānids (or Shaybānids) or Abū ʾl-Khayrids (Transoxania, N Afghanistan)
  - Toqay Temürids or Jānids or Ashtarkhānids (Transoxania, N Afghanistan)
  - Mangïts (Khanate of Bukhārā)
  - Qungrats or Ïnaqids (Khanate of Khīva)
  - Mings (Khanate of Khoqand)
- Indian Subcontinent & Afghanistan
  - Ghaznavids (Afghanistan, Khurāsān, Baluchistan, NW India)
  - Ghūrids (Ghūr, Khurāsān, NW India)
  - Delhi Sultans (N India, N Deccan)
  - Sultans of Bengal (Bengal, Bihār)
  - Sultans of Kashmir (Kashmir)
  - Sultans of Gujarāt (W India)
  - Sharqī Sultans of Jawnpur (E-Central, N India)
  - Sultans & Rulers of Mālwa (Central India)
  - Sultans of Maʿbar or Madura (S Deccan)
  - Bahmanids (N Deccan)
  - Fārūqī Rulers of Khāndesh (NW Deccan)
  - Barīd Shāhīs (Bīdar)
  - ʿĀdil Shāhīs (Bījapur)
  - Niẓām Shāhīs (Aḥmadnagar)
  - ʿImād Shāhīs (Berār)
  - Quṭb Shāhīs (Golconda-Muḥammadnagar)
  - Arghūns (Multan & Sind)
  - Mughal Emperors (India)
  - Nawwāb-Viziers & Nawwāb-Nāẓims (Bengal)
  - Nawwāb-Viziers & Kings of Qudh (Awadh) (N India)
  - Niẓāms of Hyderabad (S India)
  - Muslim Rulers in Mysore (S India)
  - Abdālī or Durrānī Rulers & Kings (Afghanistan)
- SE Asia & Indonesia
  - Rulers of Malacca (SW Coast of Malay peninsula)
  - Sultans of Aceh (N Sumatra)
  - Rulers of Mataram (Central Java)
  - Susuhanans of Surakarta (Central Java)
  - Sultans of Jogjakarta (S-Central Java)
  - Sultans of Brunei (N Borneo)

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