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This is a list of the rulers of the [[Iraq]]i city of [[Mosul]].

==Umayyad governors==
{{See also|Rashidun Caliphate|Umayyad Caliphate}}
* [[Muhammad ibn Marwan]] (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)<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Governors of Mosul According to Al-Azdī's Ta'rīkh Almawṣil|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=89|issue=1|pages=88–105|date= Jan–Mar 1969|jstor = 598281|last1=Forand|first1=Paul G.|doi=10.2307/598281}}</ref>
* [[Marwan II|Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan]] (720–724)
* [[Al-Hurr ibn Yusuf]] (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==
{{See also|Abbasid Caliphate}}
* [[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 Abdallah al-Mansur|Ja'far ibn Abu Jafar]] (762–764)
* [[Khalid ibn Barmak]] (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]] and [[Musa ibn Mus'ab al-Khath'ami|Musa ibn Mus'ab]] (772–775)
* [[Ishaq ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi]] (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 al-Khath'ami|Musa ibn Mus'ab]] (782–783)
* Hashim ibn Sa'id (785)
* [[Abd al-Malik ibn Salih]] (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]] (791–796)
* [[Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harashi|Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harazi]] (796–797)
* [[Harthama ibn A'yan]] (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]] (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]] (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]] (879–891)
* [[Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Kundaj]] (891–892)
* [[Ahmad ibn Isa al-Shaybani]] (892–893)
* [[Hamdan ibn Hamdun]], rebel Hamdanid (892–895)
* Direct Abbasid control
** Hasan  ibn Ali  (c. 895) 
** [[Al-Muktafi|Abu Muhammad Ali ibn al-Mu'tadid]] (c. 899–902)

==Hamdanid emirs==
{{See also|Anarchy at Samarra|Al-Muqtadir|Hamdanid Dynasty}}

* [[Abdallah ibn Hamdan|Abdallah Abu'l-Hayja ibn Hamdan]], 905–913, 914–916 926–929, as Abbasid governor
* [[Nasir al-Dawla]], 929–930 and 935–967 
* [[Sa'id ibn Hamdan]], 931–934
* [[Abu Taghlib]], 967–978
* Directly administered as part of the [[Buyid]] emirate of Iraq, 978–989
* [[Abu Tahir Ibrahim ibn Nasir al-Dawla|Abu Tahir Ibrahim]] and [[Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Nasir al-Dawla|Abu Abdallah al-Husayn]], 989–990

==Uqaylid emirs==
{{main|Uqaylid Dynasty}}

* [[Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab]] ca. 990–991/2
* [[Abu Ja'far al-Hajjaj]] (Buyid governor) 991/2–996
* [[Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab]] 996–1001
* [[Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad]] 1001–1050
* [[Baraka ibn al-Muqallad]] 1050–1052 
* [[Quraysh ibn Baraka]] 1052–1061 
* '''Under [[Seljuk Empire|Seljuk]] suzerainty''' 1055–1096
* [[Muslim ibn Quraysh]] 1061–1085 
* [[Ibrahim ibn Quraysh]] 1085–1089/90
* [[Fakhr al-Dawla ibn Jahir]] ([[vizier]] of [[Malik-Shah I]]) 1089/90–1092
* [[Ali ibn Muslim]] 1092
* [[Ibrahim ibn Quraysh]] 1092–1093
* [[Ali ibn Muslim]] 1093–1096

==Seljuk Atabegs==
{{See also|Seljuk Sultanate}}
* [[Kerbogha]], 1096–1102 <ref name=Mossoul>{{Harvsp|Grousset|1934|pp=438–9}}.</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&q=Sonkordja&pg=PA1130|title=First Encyclopedia of Islam, 1913-1936, pp. 1129-1130|isbn=9004097902|last1=Houtsma|first1=M. Th|year=1993}}</ref>
* Sunqurjah, officer of Kerbogha, 1102.<ref name=Mossoul/><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">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.</ref>
* Musa al-Turkomani, Kerbogha's deputy at Hisn Kaifa, 1102.<ref name=Mossoul/><ref name=":1" />
* [[Jikirmish]] 1102–1106 <ref name=Mossoul/>
* [[Jawali Saqawa]], 1106–1109  <ref name="Mossoul2">{{Harvsp|Maalouf|1983|pp=92–4}}.</ref>
* [[Mawdud]], 1109–1113
* [[Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi]], 1113–1114
* Juyûsh-Beg, 1114–1124
*[[Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi]], second rule, 1124–1126
* Mas’ûd ibn Bursuqî, son of Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi, 1126–1127.<ref>{{Harvsp|Grousset|1934|pp=697–9}}.</ref>

==Zengid emirs==
{{main|Zengid dynasty}}
* [Under [[Seljuqs|Seljuk]] 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: 
* [[Nur ad-Din Arslan Shah I|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]] 1219–1234.

==Lu'lu'id emirs==
* [[Badr al-Din Lu'lu']], former atabeg to [[Nasir ad-Din Mahmud]], 1234–1259<ref>Bosworth, Clifford E., ''The New Islamic Dynasties:  A Chronological and Genealogical Manual'', Columbia University Press, New York, 1996, p. 193.</ref>
* [Under Mongols suzerainty beginning in 1254]
* [[As-Salih Isma'il]], son of Badr al-Din Lu'lu', in Mosul and [[Sinjar]], 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 [[Cizre|Jazirat ibn 'Umar]], 1259-1262.

==Mongol Governors==
{{See also|Ilkhanate|Jalayirid Sultanate}}
* [[Mulay|Mulay Noyan]] c. 1296–1312<ref>{{cite web |author=Patrick Wing |url=http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_XI-2_2007-Wing.pdf |title=The Decline of the Ilkhanate and the Mamluk Sultanate’s Eastern Frontier |website=University of Chicago |p=78 |date=2007 }}</ref>
* [[Sutay|Amīr Sūtāy]] 1312–1331/1332, [[Sutayids|Sutayid]]
* [[Ali Padshah|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==
{{main|Jalairid Sultanate}}

* [[Bayazid (Jalayirids)|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==
{{See also|Ottoman Empire}}
* [[Ezidi Mirza]] (1649-1650)
* [[Hatibzade Yahya Pasha]] (1748)
* [[Hüseyin Pasha of Mosul|Hüseyin Pasha]] 1758–?
* [[Murad Pasha of Mosul|Murad Pasha]] ?
* [[Sa'dullah Pasha]] ?
* [[Hasan Pasha of Mosul]] ?
* [[Mehmed Pasha of Mosul]] ?
* [[Süleyman Pasha of Mosul|Süleyman Pasha]] ?
* [[Mehmed Amin Pasha]] ?
* [[Mahmud Pasha of Mosul|Mahmud Pasha]] ?
* [[Abdurrahman Pasha]] ?
* [[Ahmed Pasha of Mosul|Ahmed Pasha]] ?
* [[Osman Pasha of Mosul|Osman Pasha]] ?
* [[Naman Pasha]] ?–1831
* [[Omari Pasha]] 1831–1833
* [[Yahya Pasha of Mosul|Yahya Pasha]] 1833–1834
* [[Injal Pasha]] 1835–1840
* ? 1840–1844
* [[Sherif Pasha of Mosul|Sherif Pasha]] 1844–1845
* [[Tayyar Pasha]] 1846
* [[Esad Pasha of Mosul|Esad Pasha]] 1847
* [[Vechihi Pasha]] 1848 
* [[Kâmil Pasha]] 1848–1855
* Within the [[eyalet of Van]] 1855–1865
* Within the [[vilayet]] of Iraq 1865–1875 
* ? 1875–1889
* [[Kürd Reshid Pasha]] 1889
* ? 1889–1894
* [[Aziz Pasha]] 1894–1895 
* [[Kölemen Abdullah Pasha]] 1896 
* [[Zihdi Bey]] 1897
* [[Abdülwahib Pasha]] 1898
* [[Hüseyin Hazim Pasha]] 1898–1900 
* [[Hadji Reshid Pasha]] 1901
* [[Nuri Killigil|Nuri Pasha]] 1902–1904 
* [[Mustafa Bey of Mosul|Mustafa Bey]] 1905–1908 
* [[Fazil Pasha]] 1909
* [[Tahir Pasha (Mosul)|Tahir Pasha]] 1910–1912
* [[Süleyman Nasif Bey]] 1913–1916 
* [[Haydar Bey]] 1916–1918

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite book|last=Grousset|first=René|author-link=René Grousset|title=History of the Crusades and the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem|publisher=Perrin|location=Paris|year=1934}}
*{{cite book|last=Maalouf|first=Amin|author-link=Amin Maalouf|title=The Crusades seen by the Arabs|publisher=|year=1983|isbn=978-2-290-11916-7}}
{{refend}}

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