List of rulers of Mosul

This is a list of the rulers of the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Umayyad governors

See also: Rashidun Caliphate and Umayyad Caliphate

• Muhammad ibn Marwan (ca. 685–705)
• Yusuf ibn Yahya ibn al-Hakam (ca. 685–705)
• Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik (ca. 685–705)
• Yahya ibn Yahya al-Ghassani (719–720)^[1]
• Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan (720–724)
• Al-Hurr ibn Yusuf (727–731/32)
• Yahya ibn al-Hurr (732/33)
• Al-Walid ibn Talid (733–739)
• Abu Quhafa ibn al-Walid (739–743)
• Al Qatiran ibn Akmad ibn al-Shaybani (744–745)
• Hisham ibn Amr-al Zubayr (745–750)

Abbasid governors

See also: Abbasid Caliphate

• Muhammad ibn Sawl (750–751)
• Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Ali (c. 751)
• Ismail ibn Ali ibn Abdullah (751–759)
• Malik ibn al-Haytham al-Khuzai (759–762)
• Ja'far ibn Abu Jafar (762–764)
• Khalid ibn Barmak (764–766)
• Ismail ibn Abd Allah ibn Yazid (768–770)
• Yazid ibn Usayd ibn Zafir al-Sulami (770)
• Musa ibn Ka'b (771–772)
• Khalid ibn Barmak and Musa ibn Mus'ab (772–775)
• Ishaq ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi (776)
• Hassan al Sarawi (776–777)
• Abd al-Samad ibn Ali (778)
• Muhammed ibn al-Fadl (779–780)
• Ahmad ibn Ismail ibn Ali (781–782)
• Musa ibn Mus'ab (782–783)
• Hashim ibn Sa'id (785)
• Abd al-Malik ibn Salih (785–787)
• Ishaq ibn Muhammed (787–778)
• Saíd ibn al-Salm (778–789)
• Abd Allah ibn Malik (789–791)
• al-Hakam ibn Sulayman (791)
• Muhammed ibn al-Abbas al-Hashimi (791–796)
• Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harazi (796–797)
• Harthama ibn A'yan (798–802), with various deputies
• Nadal ibn Rifa's (804–805)
• Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Hatim (806)
• Ali ibn Sadaqa ibn Dinar (c. 806)
• Muhammed ibn al-Fadl (806–809)
• Ibrahim ibn al-Abbas (809)
• Khalid ibn Yazid (810)
• al-Muttalib ibn Abd Allah (811)
• al-Hasan ibn Umar (812)
• Tahir ibn Husayn (813)
• Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Sailh (814–817)
• al-Sayyid ibn Anas (817–826)
• Muhammed ibn Humayd al-Tusi (826–827)
• Harun ibn Abu Khalid (827)
• Muhammed ibn al-Sayyid ibn Anas (827–828)
• Malik ibn Tawk (829–831)
• Mansur ibn Bassam (c.834)
• Abd Allah ibn al-Sayyid ibn Anas (c. 838)
• Akaba ibn Muhammad (before 868)
• Hasan ibn Ayyub (before 868)
• Abd Allah ibn Sulayman (c. 868)
• Musawir: Kharijite rebel (868)
• Azugitin (873–874), with deputies
• Khidr bin Ahmad (c. 874)
  • Autonomous:
• Ishaq ibn Kundaj (879–891)
• Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Kundaj (891–892)
• Ahmad ibn Isa al-Shaybani (892–893)
• Hamdan ibn Hamdun, rebel Hamdanid (892–895)
• Direct Abbasid control
  • Hasan ibn Ali (c. 895)
  • Abu Muhammad Ali ibn al-Mu'tadid (c. 899–902)

Hamdanid emirs

See also: Anarchy at Samarra, Al-Muqtadir, and Hamdanid Dynasty

• Abdallah Abu'l-Hayja ibn Hamdan, 905–913, 914–916 926–929, as Abbasid governor
• Nasir al-Dawla, 929–930 and 935–967
• Sa'id ibn Hamdan, 931–934
• Abu Taghlib, 967–978
• Directly administered as part of the Buyid emirate of Iraq, 978–989
• Abu Tahir Ibrahim and Abu Abdallah Husayn, 989–990

Uqaylid emirs

Main article: Uqaylid Dynasty

• Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab ca. 990–991/2
• Abu Ja'far al-Hajjaj (Buyid governor) 991/2–996
• Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab 996–1001
• Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad 1001–1050
• Baraka ibn al-Muqallad 1050–1052
• Quraysh ibn Baraka 1052–1061
• Under Seljuk suzerainty 1055–1096
• Muslim ibn Quraysh 1061–1085
• Ibrahim ibn Quraysh 1085–1089/90
• Fakhr al-Dawla ibn Jahir (vizier of Malik-Shah I) 1089/90–1092
• Ali ibn Muslim 1092
• Ibrahim ibn Quraysh 1092–1093
• Ali ibn Muslim 1093–1096

Seljuk Atabegs

See also: Seljuk Sultanate

• Kerbogha, 1096–1102 ^[2][3]
• Sunqurjah, officer of Kerbogha, 1102.^[2][3][4]
• Musa al-Turkomani, Kerbogha's deputy at Hisn Kaifa, 1102.^[2][4]
• Jikirmish 1102–1106 ^[2]
• Jawali Saqawa, 1106–1109 ^[5]
• Mawdud, 1109–1113
• Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi, 1113–1114
• Juyûsh-Beg, 1114–1124
• Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi, second rule, 1124–1126
• Mas’ûd ibn Bursuqî, son of Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi, 1126–1127.^[6]

Zengid emirs

Main article: Zengid dynasty

• [Under Seljuk sovereignty]
• Imad al-Din Zengi 1127–1146
• Saif ad-Din Ghazi I 1146–1149
• Qutb ad-Din Mawdud 1149–1169
• Ghazi II Saif ud-Din 1169–1180
• Mas'ud I 'Izz ud-Din 1180–1193 and:
• Sanjar Shah (at Jazira) 1176–1208 and:
• Arslan I Shah Nur ud-Din 1193–1211 and:
• Mahmud Muizz ad-Din (at Jazira) 1208–1241 and:
• Mas'ud II 'Izz ud-Din 1211–1218 and afterwards:
• Arslan II Shah Nur ud-Din 1218–1219 and afterwards:
• Nasir ad-Din Mahmud 1219–1234.

Lu'lu'id emirs

• Badr al-Din Lu'lu', former atabeg to Nasir ad-Din Mahmud, 1234–1259^[7]
• [Under Mongols suzerainty beginning in 1254]
• As-Salih Isma'il, son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', in Mosul and Sinjar, 1259–1262
• Al-Muzaffar 'Ala' al-Din 'Ali, son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', in Sinjar, 1259
• Sayf al-Din Ishāq, son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', in Jazirat ibn 'Umar, 1259-1262.

Mongol Governors

See also: Ilkhanate and Jalayirid Sultanate

• Mulay Noyan c. 1296–1312^[8]
• Amīr Sūtāy 1312–1331/1332, Sutayid
• Alī Pādshāh, Oirat 1332–1336
• Ḥājī Ṭaghāy ibn Sūtāy 1336–c. 1342, Sutayid
• Ibrahim Shah 1342–1347, Sutayid, nephew of Ḥājī Ṭaghāy
• To the house of Jalayirid of Baghdad 1340s–1383

Jalayirid

Main article: Jalairid Sultanate

• Bayazid 1382–1383
• To the Horde of the Black Sheep 1383–1401
• To the Timurid Empire 1401–1405
• To the Horde of the Black Sheep 1405–1468
• To the Horde of the White Sheep 1468–1508
• To Persia 1508–1534
• To the Ottoman Empire 1534–1623
• To Persia 1623–1638
• To the Ottoman Empire 1638–1917

Ottoman governors

See also: Ottoman Empire

• Ezidi Mirza (1649-1650)
• Hatibzade Yahya Pasha (1748)
• Hüseyin Pasha 1758–?
• Murad Pasha ?
• Sa'dullah Pasha ?
• Hasan Pasha of Mosul ?
• Mehmed Pasha of Mosul ?
• Süleyman Pasha ?
• Mehmed Amin Pasha ?
• Mahmud Pasha ?
• Abdurrahman Pasha ?
• Ahmed Pasha ?
• Osman Pasha ?
• Naman Pasha ?–1831
• Omari Pasha 1831–1833
• Yahya Pasha 1833–1834
• Injal Pasha 1835–1840
• ? 1840–1844
• Sherif Pasha 1844–1845
• Tayyar Pasha 1846
• Esad Pasha 1847
• Vechihi Pasha 1848
• Kâmil Pasha 1848–1855
• Within the eyalet of Van 1855–1865
• Within the vilayet of Iraq 1865–1875
• ? 1875–1889
• Kürd Reshid Pasha 1889
• ? 1889–1894
• Aziz Pasha 1894–1895
• Kölemen Abdullah Pasha 1896
• Zihdi Bey 1897
• Abdülwahib Pasha 1898
• Hüseyin Hazim Pasha 1898–1900
• Hadji Reshid Pasha 1901
• Nuri Pasha 1902–1904
• Mustafa Bey 1905–1908
• Fazil Pasha 1909
• Tahir Pasha 1910–1912
• Süleyman Nasif Bey 1913–1916
• Haydar Bey 1916–1918

References

1. Forand, Paul G. (Jan–Mar 1969). "The Governors of Mosul According to Al-Azdī's Ta'rīkh Almawṣil". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 89 (1): 88–105. doi:10.2307/598281. JSTOR 598281.
2. Grousset 1934, pp. 438–9.
3. Houtsma, M. Th (1993). First Encyclopedia of Islam, 1913-1936, pp. 1129-1130. ISBN 9004097902.
4. Richards, D. S., Editor, The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh.  Part 1, 1097–1146., Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, 2010, pp. 58-59.
5. Maalouf 1983, pp. 92–4.
6. Grousset 1934, pp. 697–9.
7. Bosworth, Clifford E., The New Islamic Dynasties:  A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, Columbia University Press, New York, 1996, p. 193.
8. Patrick Wing (2007). "The Decline of the Ilkhanate and the Mamluk Sultanate's Eastern Frontier" (PDF). University of Chicago. p. 78.

Sources

• Grousset, René (1934). History of the Crusades and the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem. Paris: Perrin.
• Maalouf, Amin (1983). The Crusades seen by the Arabs. ISBN 978-2-290-11916-7.