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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
Map: Rustamid dynasty in 778, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Rustamid dynasty in 778, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 470,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Fatimid Caliphate: 909 – 1171Rustamid dynasty: 777 – 909

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

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.

Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam · 776 – 788 · died in office, manner not recordedAbd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman · 788 – 824 · the term ends after the recorded deathAflah ibn Abd al-Wahhab · 823 – 872 · the term ends after the recorded deathAbu Bakr ibn Aflah · 872 – 874 · no death date to read the end againstYusuf Abu Hatim ibn Muhammad · 894 – 897 · left office aliveYaʿqūb b. Aflaḥ · 897 – 901 · died in office, manner not recordedYusuf Abu Hatim ibn Muhammad · 901 – 906 · died in office, manner not recorded800850900
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam776 – 78812 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman788 – 82436 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alonechild
Aflah ibn Abd al-Wahhab823 – 87249 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alonechild
Abu Bakr ibn Aflah872 – 8742 yearsending not on recordchild
Yusuf Abu Hatim ibn Muhammad894 – 8973 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Yaʿqūb b. Aflaḥ897 – 9014 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yusuf Abu Hatim ibn Muhammad901 – 9065 yearsdied 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.

800850900

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 – 799: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other700800 – 899: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other800900 – 999: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other900

700 – 7992 rows

800 – 8992 rows

900 – 9991 row

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.

Sasanian Empire · In the article · 224 · “They claimed descent from the Kings of Kings of the Sasanian Empire.”Sasanian EmpireBattle of al-Qadisiyyah · In the article · 636 · “The Rustamids were of Persian origin and descended from a mawla of Rashidun caliph Uthman ibn Affan, who may have been related to a Persian general killed at …”Battle of al-QadisiyyahRustamid dynasty · 777 – 909Rustamid dynastyFatimid Caliphate · Linked · 909 – 1171Fatimid Caliphate20040060080010001200
in the articlelinked

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

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.