Office Islam
Amir
أمير ar امیر fa
Title of high office, used throughout the Muslim world
- Also called Amier, Ameer, Emira
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 13 holders
- 6 overlaps
- 8 gaps
- 1 step named in the records
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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788 CE – 791 CE Idris Ibn Abdallah Idrisid ruler (r. 788–791) Recognised by Idrisid dynasty -
Gap about 77 years with no holder recorded
868 CE – 884 CE Ahmad ibn Tulun Emir of Egypt and Syria from 868 to 884 Recognised by Tulunids -
10 May 884 CE – 18 January 896 CE Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun Emir of Egypt from 884 to 896 Recognised by Tulunids Has references -
Gap about 8 years with no holder recorded
904 CE – 905 CE Shayban ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun 10th-century Emir of Egypt Recognised by Tulunids -
Gap about 44 years with no holder recorded
949 CE – 983 CE 'Adud al-Dawla Buyid dynasty emir (936-983) -
Overlap held at the same time as 'Adud al-Dawla
967 CE – 983 CE 'Adud al-Dawla Buyid dynasty emir (936-983) -
Overlap held at the same time as 'Adud al-Dawla and 'Adud al-Dawla
20 April 977 CE – 5 August 997 CE Sabuktigin Founder of the Ghaznavid Empire (c.942–997) -
Overlap held at the same time as 'Adud al-Dawla, 'Adud al-Dawla and 1 more
978 CE – 983 CE 'Adud al-Dawla Buyid dynasty emir (936-983) -
Gap about 249 years with no holder recorded
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1232 CE – 1238 CE Muhammad I of Granada First ruler of the Emirate of Granada from c. 1232 to 1273 -
Gap about 6 years with no holder recorded
1244 CE – 1258 CE Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq Marinid ruler from 1244 to 1258 Recognised by Marinid dynasty -
Gap about 112 years with no holder recorded
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9 April 1370 CE – 14 February 1405 CE Timur the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405) Recognised by Timurid Empire -
Gap about 139 years with no holder recorded
1544 CE – 1549 CE Muhammad al-Shaykh Saadian dynasty Sultan of Morocco (1490–1557) -
Gap about 283 years with no holder recorded
1832 CE – 1847 CE Abdelkader El Djezairi Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883)
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Connections
How Amir connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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