X. VE XI. ASIRDA MUSUL, HALEP VE BUNLARA MÜCÂVİR YERLERDE UKAYLÎ HAKİMİYETİ
UQAYLID DOMINATION IN THE TENTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURY IN MOSUL, ALEPPO AND CONTIGUOUS TO THESE PLACES

Summary/Abstract: Uqaylid that was called Banu Uqaylid, Al-ı Musayyab or Banu al-Musayyab, is an Arab emirate who dominated Mosul and Aleppo in tenth and eleventh centuries. Inhabiting in the desert among Tihama, Najd and Hejaz before Islam, Uqaylids spreaded towards to the Damascus and al-Djazira region after spread of Islam. Uqaylids who settled in the upper regions of Mosul and Habur, set up an alliance with the Umayyads. They participated to the riots occurred against to Abbasid with the supporters of Umayyad after the revolution of Abbasid. After the weakening of the central authority of Abbasid, independent and semi-independent states began to be emerged in al-Djazira and Bilad al-Sham. Uqaylids had been in the service of Hamdanids who were founded by profiting from the chaos in al-Djazira region and after death of Mosul Hamdanids’ last amir Abu Taghlib in 979, taking the advantage of management occasion in Mosul; they established a new Mosul-based emirate.

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