Mirdasid dynasty

Mirdasid dynasty
مرداسيون
1024–1080
Map of the Mirdasid emirate at its zenith during the rule of Salih ibn Mirdas in 1025
Map of the Mirdasid emirate at its zenith during the rule of Salih ibn Mirdas in 1025
CapitalAleppo
Common languagesArabic
Religion
Shia Islam
GovernmentEmirate
Emir 
• 1024–1029
Salih ibn Mirdas
• 1029–1038
Shibl al-Dawla Nasr
• 1042–1062
Mu'izz al-Dawla Thimal
History 
• Established
1024
• Disestablished
1080
CurrencyDirham, dinar
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Fatimid Caliphate
Uqaylid dynasty
Today part ofSyria
Lebanon

The Mirdasid dynasty (Arabic: المرداسيون, romanizedal-Mirdāsiyyīn), also called the Banu Mirdas, was an Arab Shia Muslim dynasty which ruled an Aleppo-based emirate in northern Syria and the western Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) more or less continuously from 1024 until 1080.