Hamdanid dynasty

890 CE – 1004 CE · about 114 years

The Hamdanids were an Arab Shia dynasty of the Taghlib tribe that ruled Mosul and Aleppo. Sayf al-Dawla of Aleppo fought the Byzantines for decades and hosted the poet al-Mutanabbi and the philosopher al-Farabi. The Aleppo emirate ended in the early 11th century under Fatimid pressure.