List of Caliphs

This list is based on the definitive reference work of C. E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (1996).

THE ORTHODOX OR RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS (632–61)

632	Abū Bakr
634	Umar b. al-Khattāb
644	Uthmān b. Affān
656–61	Alī b. Abī Tālib

THE UMAYYAD CALIPHS (661–750)

661	Muāwiya I b. Abī Sufyān
680	Yazīd I
683	Muāwiya II
684	Marwān I b. al-Hakam
685	Abd al-Malik
705	Walīd I
715	Sulaymān
717	Umar II b. Abd al-Azīz
720	Yazīd II
724	Hishām
743	Walīd II
744	Yazīd III
744	Ibrāhīm
744–50	Marwān II

THE ABBASID CALIPHS (749–1517)

BAGHDAD AND IRAQ (749–1258)

749	Saffāh
754	Mansūr
775	Mahdī
785	Hādī
786	Hārūn al-Rashīd
809	Amīn
813	Ma’mūn
833	Mutasim
842	Wāthiq
847	Mutawakkil
861	Muntasir
862	Mustaīn
866	Mutazz
869	Muhtadī
870	Mutamid
892	Mutadid
902	Muktafī
908	Muqtadir
932	Qāhir
934	Rādī
940	Muttaqī
944	Mustakfī
946	Mutī
974	Tā’ī
991	Qādir
1031	Qā’im
1075	Muqtadī
1094	Mustazhir
1118	Mustarshid
1135	Rāshid
1136	Muqtafī
1160	Mustanjid
1170	Mustadī
1180	Nāsir
1225	Zāhir
1226	Mustansir
1242–58	Mustasim
1258	Mongol sack of Baghdad

CAIRO (1261–1517)

1261	Hākim I
1302	Mustakfī I
1340	Wāthiq I
1341	Hākim II
1352	Mutadid I
1362	Mutawakkil I, first time
1377	Mutasim, first time
1377	Mutawakkil I, second time
1383	Wāthiq II
1386	Mutasim, second time
1389	Mutawakkil I, third time
1406	Mustaīn
1414	Mutadid II
1441	Mustakfī II
1451	Qā’im
1455	Mustanjid
1479	Mutawakkil II
1497	Mustamsik, first time
1508	Mutawakkil III, first time
1516	Mustamsik, second time
1517	Mutawakkil III, second time
1517	Ottoman conquest of Egypt

THE SPANISH UMAYYAD CALIPHS (929–1031)

929	Abd al-Rahmān III al-Nāsir (emir since 912)
961	Hakam II al-Mustansir
976	Hishām II al-Muayyad, first reign
1009	Muhammad II al-Mahdī, first reign
1009	Sulaymān al-Mustaīn, first reign
1010	Muhammad II, second reign
1010	Hishām II, second reign
1013	Sulaymān, second reign
1018	Abd al-Rahmān IV al-Murtadā
1023	Abd al-Rahmān V al-Mustazhir
1024	Muhammad III al-Mustakfī
1027–31	Hishām III al-Mutadid
1031	Abolition of Umayyad caliphate of Andalus

THE ALMOHAD CALIPHS IN NORTH AFRICA AND ANDALUS (1130–1269)

1130	Muhammad b. Tūmart
1130	Abd al-Mu’min
1163	Abū Yaqūb Yūsuf I
1184	Abū Yūsuf Yaqūb al-Mansūr
1199	Muhammad al-Nāsir
1214	Abū Yaqūb Yūsuf II al-Mustansir
1224	Abd al-Wāhid I al-Makhlū
1224	Abū Muhammad Abdallāh al-Ādil
1227	Yahyā al-Mutasim
1229	Abū al-Alā Idrīs al-Mamūn
1232	Abū Muhammad Abd al-Wāhid II al-Rashīd
1242	Abū al-Hasan Alī al-Saīd al-Mutadid
1248	Abū Hafs Umar al-Murtadā
1266–9	Abū’l-Ulā al-Wāthiq
1269	Christian conquest of all Spain except Granada; North African lands divided among Abdal-Wādids, Hafsids and Marīnids

THE FATIMID (909–1171)

NORTH AFRICA (909–69)

909	Ubaydallāh al-Mahdī
934	Qā’im
946	Mansūr
953	Muizz (from 969 in Egypt)

EGYPT (969–1171)

977	Azīz
996	Hākim
1021	Zāhir
1036	Mustansir
1094	Mustalī
1101	Āmir
1131	Hāfiz
1149	Zāfir
1154	Fā’iz
1160–71	Ādid
1171	Ayyubid conquest of Egypt