List of rulers of Mosul

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

Umayyad governors

• 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)
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Kerbogha, 1096–1102
• Sunqurjah, officer of Kerbogha, 1102.
• Musa al-Turkomani, Kerbogha's deputy at Hisn Kaifa, 1102.
• Jikirmish 1102–1106
• Jawali Saqawa, 1106–1109
• 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.

Zengid emirs

• [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
• [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

• Mulay Noyan c. 1296–1312
• 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

• 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

• 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

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