Marwanids (Diyar Bakr)

Marwanid Emirate
983/990–1085
CapitalMayyafariqin
Spoken languagesKurdish (mother tongue)[1]
Arabic (poetry/numismatics)[1]
Religion
Sunni Islam (official)
GovernmentEmirate
History 
• Established
983/990
• Disestablished
1085
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Buyid dynasty
Hamdanid dynasty
Bagratid Armenia
Seljuk Empire
Shah-Armens
Artuqids

The Marwanids or Dustakids, Marwanid Emirate (983/990-1085, Kurdish: میرنشینی مەڕوانی/ میرنشینی دۆستەکی) were a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty in the Diyar Bakr region of Upper Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey and south Armenia), centered on the city of Mayyafariqin.[2]

  1. ^ a b Öpengin 2021, p. 612.
  2. ^ Kennedy, Hugh (2004-02-01). The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century. pp. 214–228.

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