This is a list of the rulers of the

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

i city of

Mosul Mosul ( ; , , ; ; ; ) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. It is the second largest city in Iraq overall after the capital Baghdad. Situated on the banks of Tigris, the city encloses the ruins of the ...

Umayyad governors

Muhammad ibn Marwan Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam () (died 719/720) was an Umayyad prince and one of the most important generals of the Umayyad Caliphate in the period 690–710, and the one who completed the Arab conquest of Armenia. ...

(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 Ahrar (Arabic, 'freemen' or 'liberals') may refer to: Organisations and political parties * Ahrar Party (Azerbaijan), 1918–1920 *Liberal Socialists Party ''(Hizb al-Ahrar)'', Egypt, founded 1976 * Ahrar Party (India), or Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, ...

(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 Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal". It also appears as a surname.

(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 Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal". It also appears as a surname.

and Musa ibn Mus'ab (772–775) *

Ishaq ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī () was an 8th–9th-century AD Abbasid prince and historian. He held several official positions during his lifetime, including the governorships of Sind, Egypt, and Arminiyah. Caree ...

(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 ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī () (, ''Abimelech'', in Greek sources; 750–812 CE) was a member of the Banu Abbas who served as general and governor in Syria and Egypt. He distinguished himself in several raids against the Byzantine Em ...

(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 Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, ...

(791–796) * Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harazi (796–797) *

Harthama ibn A'yan Harthama ibn A'yan (; died June 816) was a Khurasan-born general and governor of the early Abbasid Caliphate, serving under the caliphs al-Hadi, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun. He played an important role in the victory of al-Ma'mun in the Abbasid ...

(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 Ṭāhir ibn Ḥusayn (, ''Tahir bin al-Husayn''), also known as Dhul-Yamīnayn (, "the ambidextrous"), and al-Aʿwar (, "the one-eyed"), was a general and governor during the Abbasid Caliphate. Specifically, he served under al-Ma'mun during the ...

(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 Malik ibn Tawk ibn Malik ibn 'Attab at-Taghlibi () (died 873) was an Arab Abbasid official during the reigns of caliphs al-Wathiq (r. 842–847) and al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861). He is best known as the founder of the fortress town of al-Rahba on ...

(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 Isḥāq ib Kundāj al-Khazarī () or Kundājīq, was a Turkic military leader who played a prominent role in the turbulent politics of the Abbasid Caliphate in the late 9th century. Initially active in lower Iraq in the early 870s, he came to b ...

(879–891) *

Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Kundaj Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Kundaj () was a prominent general of the Abbasid Caliphate in the early 10th century. Life He was the son of Ishaq ibn Kundaj, a Turkic strongman who had established himself, with sanction from the Abbasid court, as the ...

(891–892) *

Ahmad ibn Isa al-Shaybani Ahmad ibn Isa al-Shaybani () (died 898), was an Arab leader of the Shayban tribe. In 882/3 he succeeded his father, Isa ibn al-Shaykh, as the virtually independent ruler of Diyar Bakr, and soon expanded his control over parts of southern Armenia ...

(892–893) *

Hamdan ibn Hamdun Hamdan ( ') is a name of Arab origin of aristocratic descent and many political ties within the middle east and the Arab World, controlling import/export mandates over port authorities. Among people named Hamdan include: Given name * Hamdan Mo ...

, 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 Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Abi'l-Hayja Abdallah ibn Hamdan al-Taghlibi (; died 968 or 969), more commonly known simply by his honorific of Nasir al-Dawla (, ), was the second Hamdanid ruler of the Emirate of Mosul, encompassing most of the Jazira ...

, 929–930 and 935–967 * Sa'id ibn Hamdan, 931–934 *

Abu Taghlib Uddat al-Dawla Abu Taghlib Fadl Allah al-Ghadanfar al-Hamdani (), usually known simply by his as Abu Taghlib, was the third Hamdanid ruler of the Emirate of Mosul, encompassing most of the Jazira. His reign was troubled, being marked by conflic ...

, 967–978 * Directly administered as part of the

Buyid The Buyid dynasty or Buyid Empire was a Zaydi and later Twelver Shi'a dynasty of Daylamite origin. Founded by Imad al-Dawla, they mainly ruled over central and southern Iran and Iraq from 934 to 1062. Coupled with the rise of other Iranian dyna ...

emirate of Iraq, 978–989 * Abu Tahir Ibrahim and Abu Abdallah al-Husayn, 989–990

Uqaylid emirs

Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab Abu'l-Dhawwād Muḥammad ibn al-Musayyab was the first Emir of Mosul from the Uqaylid dynasty, from –991/2. Life Muhammad and the Uqaylid dynasty belonged to the Banu Uqayl, a northern Arab tribe who were originally clients of the Hamdanid emi ...

ca. 990–991/2 *

Abu Ja'far al-Hajjaj Abu Ja'far al-Hajjaj ibn Ustadh Hurmuz was a Buyid general and governor. Hajjaj's father had served the Buyid emir Adud al-Dawla as a high official, while his brother Hasan initially served Adud al-Dawla's son Samsam al-Dawla. Hajjaj himself enter ...

(Buyid governor) 991/2–996 *

Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab Abu Hassan al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab (), known with the honorific Husam al-Dawla (), was an Uqaylid chieftain. He succeeded his older brother, Muhammad, as ruler of Mosul, succeeding in expelling the Buyid governor from the city. His attempts to ...

996–1001 *

Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad (), also known by the honorific Muʿtamid al-Dawla (), was the third Uqaylid emir of Mosul, and ruler of other towns in Iraq, from 1001 to 1050. An ambitious ruler, like the other petty rulers of the region he was engaged i ...

1001–1050 *

Baraka ibn al-Muqallad Baraka or Barakah may refer to: * Berakhah or Baraka, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony * Barakah or Baraka, in Islam, the beneficent force from God that flows through the physical and spiritual spheres * Baraka, full ''ḥa ...

1050–1052 *

Quraysh ibn Baraka The Quraysh () are an Arab tribe who controlled Mecca before the rise of Islam. Their members were divided into ten main clans, most notably including the Banu Hashim, into which Islam's founding prophet Muhammad was born. By the seventh centur ...

1052–1061 * Under

Seljuk Seljuk (, ''Selcuk'') or Saljuq (, ''Saljūq'') may refer to: * Seljuk Empire (1051–1153), a medieval empire in the Middle East and central Asia * Seljuk dynasty (c. 950–1307), the ruling dynasty of the Seljuk Empire and subsequent polities * S ...

suzerainty 1055–1096 * Muslim ibn Quraysh 1061–1085 *

Ibrahim ibn Quraysh Ibrahim may refer to: * Ibrahim (name), including a list of people with the name ** Abraham in Islam * Ibrahim (surah), a surah of the Qur'an * ''Ibrahim'' (play) or ''Ibrahim The Illustrious Bassa'', a 1676 tragedy by Elkanah Settle, based on a ...

1085–1089/90 * Fakhr al-Dawla ibn Jahir (

vizier A vizier (; ; ) is a high-ranking political advisor or Minister (government), minister in the Near East. The Abbasids, Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was at first merely a help ...

Malik-Shah I Malik-Shah I (, ) was the third sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1072 to 1092, under whom the sultanate reached the zenith of its power and influence. During his youth, he spent his time participating in the campaigns of his father Alp Arslan, ...

) 1089/90–1092 *

Ali ibn Muslim Ali ibn Abi Talib (; ) was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from until his assassination in 661, as well as the first Shia Imam. He was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Born to Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib and ...

1092 *

1092–1093 *

1093–1096

Seljuk Atabegs

Kerbogha Qiwam al-Dawla Kerbogha (), known as Kerbogha or Karbughā, was the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman List of rulers of Mosul#Seljuk Atabegs, atabeg of Mosul during the First Crusade and was renowned as a soldier. Early life Kerbogha was a Selju ...

, 1096–1102 . * Sunqurjah, officer of Kerbogha, 1102.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. * Musa al-Turkomani, Kerbogha's deputy at Hisn Kaifa, 1102. *

Jikirmish Jikirmish, also known as Jekermish, Chokurmish or Chökürmish (died in 1106), was the Turkoman atabeg of Mosul from 1102 to 1106. After the death of his predecessor Kerbogha, he became the adoptive father of Imad al-Din Zengi. Jikirmish and Sö ...

1102–1106 *

Jawali Saqawa Jawali Saqawa (d. 1109), also known as Chavli Saqaveh, was a Turkoman adventurer who was atabeg of Mosul from 1106–1109. In 1104, Jawali held Baldwin II as prisoner until he was ransomed in 1108. He had purloined Baldwin from Jikirmish of Mo ...

, 1106–1109 . *

Mawdud Mawdud ibn Ahmad (; died 2 October 1113) was a Muslim military leader who was atabeg of Mosul from 1109 to 1113. He organized several expeditions to reconquer lands from the Crusaders and defeated them at the Battle of al-Sannabra. Biography Ma ...

, 1109–1113 *

Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi Qasīm al-Dawla Sayf al-Dīn Abū Saʿīd Āqsunqur al-Bursuqī (), also known as Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi, Aqsonqor il-Bursuqi, Aksunkur al-Bursuki, Aksungur or al-Borsoki, was the Seljuk Turkoman atabeg of Mosul from 1113–1114 and again from 112 ...

, 1113–1114 * Juyûsh-Beg, 1114–1124 *

, second rule, 1124–1126 * Mas’ûd ibn Bursuqî, son of Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi, 1126–1127.

Zengid emirs

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 Nasir al-Din Mahmud, born in 1216, was the Zengid hereditary Emir of Mosul from 1219 to 1234 (died 18 years old). He was successor to his brother Nur al-Din Arslan Shah II, and was only three years old when he ascended the throne. He was the la ...

1219–1234.

Lu'lu'id emirs

Badr al-Din Lu'lu' Badr al-Din Lu'lu' () (-1259) (the name Lu'Lu' means 'The Pearl', indicative of his servile origins) was successor to the Zengid emirs of Mosul, where he governed in variety of capacities from 1234 to 1259 following the death of Nasir ad-Din Mah ...

, former atabeg to

, 1234–1259 * nder Mongols suzerainty beginning in 1254* As-Salih Isma'il, son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', in Mosul and

Sinjar Sinjar (; , ) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023, and is predominantly Yazidi. History ...

, 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 Ezidi Mirza (or Ezidi Mirza Hesen, Mirza Pasha and Daseni Mirza Beg; 1600 – 1651) was a Yezidi leader, who is mentioned in Yezidi sagas, poems and stories due to his heroic and military exploits. He was born 1600 AD in a respected family of ...

(1649-1650) *

Hatibzade Yahya Pasha Hatibzade Yahya Pasha (known by contemporaries as just Yahya Pasha; died August 1755) was an Ottoman statesman and admiral. He served as Kapudan Pasha (grand admiral) of the Ottoman Navy briefly in 1743 (May to November), as well as serving as t ...

(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 Osman Pasha (also spelled ''Uthman Pasha'' or ''Othman Pasha'') may refer to: * Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha (1527–1585), Ottoman grand vizier * Bosniak Osman Pasha (died 1685), Ottoman governor of Egypt, Damascus, and Bosnia * Topal Osman Pasha (1 ...

? * 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 Mehmed Kâmil Pasha (; , "Mehmed Kâmil Pasha the Cypriot"), also spelled as Kâmil Pasha (1833 – 14 November 1913), was an Ottoman Anglophile statesman and liberal politician of Turkish Cypriot origin in the late-19th-century and early-20th ...

1848–1855 * Within the eyalet of Van 1855–1865 * Within the

vilayet A vilayet (, "province"), also known by #Names, various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement initiated b ...

of Iraq 1865–1875 * ? 1875–1889 *

Kürd Reshid Pasha Kürd or Kurd may refer to the following villages: *Kürd Eldarbəyli, Azerbaijan *Kürd Mahruzlu, Azerbaijan *Kürd, Goychay, Azerbaijan *Kürd, Jalilabad, Azerbaijan *Kürd, Qabala, Azerbaijan See also

*Kurd (disambiguation) *Kūrd, a tribe o ...

1889 * ? 1889–1894 * Aziz Pasha 1894–1895 *

Kölemen Abdullah Pasha Abdullah Pasha or Abdullah Kölemen (; 1846–1937) was an Ottoman Turkish general in the First Balkan War, notable as the Ottoman commander in the Battle of Kirk Kilisse in 1912, the Battle of Lule Burgas, and the Battle of Adrianople (1913 ...

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 Suleyman or Süleyman is a variant of Suleiman (the Arabic name ). It means 'man of peace'. Notable people with the name include: Suleyman * Suleyman I of Rûm or Suleiman ibn Qutulmish (d. 1086), founder of an independent Seljuq Turkish state in ...

1913–1916 * Haydar Bey 1916–1918

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