State · 777 – 909
Rustamid dynasty
A state of 777 – 909 — 132 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Fatimid Caliphate. The atlas records 5 things within it — people 5. Its line of rulers holds 6 people. Its own article says it was conquered by Ismaili Fatimids in 909 upon.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 132 years
- 777 – 909
- Rulers
- 6
- the imam
- Most ground
- 470,000 km²
- in 778
- Within it
- 5
- recorded rows
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.
After it
- Fatimid Caliphate · replaced by · 909 – 1171
How it ended, as its article says
Conquered by Ismaili Fatimids in 909 upon, 909. Read from the article's section “History - Decline” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
After Abd al-Wahhab, the Rustamids grew militarily weak; they were easily conquered by the Ismaili Fatimids in 909, upon which many Ibadis – including the last imam – fled to the Sedrata tribe of Ouargla, whence they would ultimately emigrate to Mzab.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of imam.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam | 776 – 788 | 12 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman | 788 – 824 | 36 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Aflah ibn Abd al-Wahhab | 823 – 872 | 49 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Abu Bakr ibn Aflah | 872 – 874 | 2 years | ending not on record | child |
| Yusuf Abu Hatim ibn Muhammad | 894 – 897 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yaʿqūb b. Aflaḥ | 897 – 901 | 4 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Yusuf Abu Hatim ibn Muhammad | 901 – 906 | 5 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 776 – 906. Median reign 5 years. 1 of 6 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
470,000 km² in 787, 470,000 km² in 909; at its largest 470,000 km² in 787. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
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.
700 – 7992 rows
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam · ruler · 720 – 788
- Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman · religious leader · 740 – 820
800 – 8992 rows
- Abu Bakr ibn Aflah · ruler · 801 – 874
- Aflah ibn Abd al-Wahhab · ruler · 810 – 864
900 – 9991 row
- Yaʿqūb b. Aflaḥ · ruler · 900 – 901
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 stood132 years
stood longer than 52% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held470,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 73% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- 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.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes 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.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 132
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 764 – 922, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 778, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q940123 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.