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Amir

أمير ar امیر fa

Title of high office, used throughout the Muslim world

  • Also called Amier, Ameer, Emira
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Overview

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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
  1. 788 CE – 791 CE Idris Ibn Abdallah Idrisid ruler (r. 788–791) Recognised by Idrisid dynasty

  2. 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
  3. 10 May 884 CE – 18 January 896 CE Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun Emir of Egypt from 884 to 896 Recognised by Tulunids

  4. 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

  5. Gap about 44 years with no holder recorded

    949 CE – 983 CE 'Adud al-Dawla Buyid dynasty emir (936-983)

  6. Overlap held at the same time as 'Adud al-Dawla

    967 CE – 983 CE 'Adud al-Dawla Buyid dynasty emir (936-983)

  7. 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)

  8. 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)

  9. Gap about 249 years with no holder recorded

    1232 CE – 1238 CE Muhammad I of Granada First ruler of the Emirate of Granada from c. 1232 to 1273

  10. 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

  11. Gap about 112 years with no holder recorded

    9 April 1370 CE – 14 February 1405 CE Timur the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405) Recognised by Timurid Empire

  12. Gap about 139 years with no holder recorded

    1544 CE – 1549 CE Muhammad al-Shaykh Saadian dynasty Sultan of Morocco (1490–1557)

  13. Gap about 283 years with no holder recorded

    1832 CE – 1847 CE Abdelkader El Djezairi Algerian religious and military leader (1808–1883)

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