State · 935 – 969

Ikhshidid dynasty

A state of 935 – 969 — 34 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Bilad al-Sham. It was replaced by Fatimid Caliphate. The atlas records 5 things within it — people 5. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 34 years; 935 – 969
Rulers: 5; the Amir
Within it: 5; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Bilad al-Sham · replaces · 636 – 940

After it

Fatimid Caliphate · replaced by · 909 – 1171

Rulers

The line of Amir.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid	935 – 946	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu'l-Qasim Unujur ibn al-Ikhshid	946 – 960	14 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Ikhshid	960 – 966	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Abu al-Misk Kafur	966 – 968	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali	968 – 969	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 935 – 969. Only 34 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.63, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coin, from 943Ikhshidids. Muhammad al-Ikhshid.Filastin (al-Ramla) mint. Dated AH 332 (943-4 CE) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Classical Numismatic Group

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

900 – 9994 rows

Abu al-Misk Kafur · ruler · 905 – 968
Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Ikhshid · ruler · 930 – 966
Abu'l-Qasim Unujur ibn al-Ikhshid · ruler · 930 – 961
Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali · ruler · 957 – 987

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood34 years
stood longer than 28% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 925 – 979, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 952, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q828665 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.