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Hamdanid dynasty
The Hamdanid dynasty was an Arab Shia family of the Banu Taghlib that ruled emirates in northern Iraq and Syria in the 10th century. One branch held Mosul, while Sayf al-Dawla founded the emirate of Aleppo in 945 and led constant wars against Byzantium. His court attracted the poet al-Mutanabbi and the philosopher al-Farabi. The Aleppo line ended in the early 11th century.
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