Person
Nasir al-Dawla
Nasir al-Dawla was the Hamdanid ruler of Mosul from 929 and the head of the family that also ruled Aleppo through his brother Sayf al-Dawla. In 942 and 943 he controlled the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad as amir al-umara, before the Buyids took over Iraq. He was deposed by his own son in 967 and died in captivity.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Nasir al-Dawla. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/nasir-al-dawla
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