List of rulers of Mosul

Last updated May 17, 2025

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)^[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

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 al-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 ^[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

[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

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

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

References

↑ 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.
1 2 3 4 Grousset 1934 , pp. 438–9.
1 2 Houtsma, M. Th (1993). First Encyclopedia of Islam, 1913-1936, pp. 1129-1130. ISBN 9004097902.
1 2 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.
↑ Maalouf 1983 , pp. 92–4.
↑ Grousset 1934 , pp. 697–9.
↑ Bosworth, Clifford E., The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, Columbia University Press, New York, 1996, p. 193.
↑ 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.

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[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.

[Mossoul-2] 1 2 3 4 Grousset 1934 , pp. 438–9.

[:0-3] 1 2 Houtsma, M. Th (1993). First Encyclopedia of Islam, 1913-1936, pp. 1129-1130. ISBN 9004097902.

[:1-4] 1 2 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.

[Mossoul2-5] 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.

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