This article includes a list of successive Islamic states and Muslim dynasties beginning with the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570–632 CE) and the early Muslim conquests that spread Islam outside of the Arabian Peninsula , and continuing through to the present day.[citation needed ]
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 .[citation needed ]
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 ,[ 1] [ 2] Ottoman Empire centered around Anatolia , the Safavid Empire of Persia , and the Mughal Empire in India .[citation needed ]
Middle East and North Africa [ edit ]
Mesopotamia and Levant (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)[ edit ]
Umayyad caliphate (661–750, based in Damascus )
Abbasid caliphate (750–1258, based in Baghdad )
Ayyubid dynasty (1171–1341, based in Damascus and Aleppo )
Zengid dynasty (1127–1250, based in Aleppo )
Burid dynasty (1104–1154)
Hamdanid dynasty (890–1004, based in Aleppo )
Uqaylid dynasty (990–1096; Syria, Iraq)
Bani Assad (990–1081, Iraq)
Numayrid (990–1081; Syria, Turkey)
Marwanid (983–1085; Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Iraq)
Mirdasid dynasty (1024–1080, Syria)
Artuqids (1101–1409; Syria, Turkey, Iraq)
Baban (1649–1851, Iraq)
Soran (1816–1835, Iraq)
Emirate of Hakkari (1380s–1845; Turkey, Syria)
Bahdinan (1339–1843, Iraq)
Bohtan (1330–1855)
Principality of Bitlis (1182–1847)
Hadhabani (906–1070)
Mukriyan (1050–1500)
Qarghuyah , Emirate of Aleppo (969–977)
Nizari Ismaili state (1090–1256; Iraq, Iran, Syria)
Emirate of Aleppo , Lulu' dynasty (1004–1016)
Assaf dynasty (1306–1591, Lebanon)
Harfush dynasty (1517–1865, Lebanon, Syria)
Mamluk dynasty of Iraq (1734–1831)
Emirate of Mosul (905–1096, 1127–1222, 1254–1383, 1758–1918)
Emirate of Transjordan (1921–1946; Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq)
Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920)
Kingdom of Iraq (1921–1958)
Kingdom of Jordan (1921–present)
Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf [ edit ]
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Qatar
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Oman
Yemen
Regional
North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia)[ edit ]
Algeria
Egypt
Tunisia
Morocco
Libya
Somalia
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Djibouti
Iran
Shah Ismail I, founder of Safavid dynasty
Anatolia (Turkey)
Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Georgia
Caucasus
Afghanistan
Indian subcontinent [ edit ]
Taj Mahal
Bangladesh
Pakistan
India
Spain & Portugal
Mezquita
France
Umayyad Caliph of Cordova
Italy
Gibraltar
Sahel and Subsaharan Africa [ edit ]
Sudan, South Sudan
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Mali
Regional
Cameroon
Benin
Burkina Faso
Chad
Central African Republic
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Senegal
Gambia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Togo
Sierra Leone
East Africa ("Swahili Coast")[ edit ]
Tanzania
Kenya
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Malawi
Mozambique
Indian Ocean Region [ edit ]
Maldives
Mayotte
Comoros
Madagascar
Eastern Europe (Balkan Region)[ edit ]
Ukraine, Moldova
Romania, Bulgaria
Greece
Albania
Ural Region, Siberia (Russia)[ edit ]
Central Asia, East Asia[ edit ]
Transoxania (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan)
China
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia
Philippines
Approximate extent of the Muslim Sultanates in the Philippines
Thailand
Cambodia, Vietnam
Myanmar
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