الدولة الحمدانية

الدولة الحمدانية

The state of the Banu Hamdan ibn Hamdun al-Taghlibi, of Banu Taghlib ibn Wa'il of the Jazira; it began with authority over Mosul when al-Muktafi appointed Abu al-Hayja Abd Allah ibn Hamdan over it, then extended through the Jazira and Syria, settling under its great amirs Nasir al-Dawla at Mosul and Sayf al-Dawla at Aleppo, acting independently under the Abbasid call — in Ibn Khaldun's description.