List of rulers of Gaza

The following is a list of rulers of Gaza. During Mamluk and early Ottoman rule, Gaza served as the capital of a province which at times included most of central and southern Palestine or the coastal plain up to Jaffa.

Ayyubids

• Nasir al-Din (1244–1245)

Mamluks

• Baybars al-Ala'i (1307–1309)^[1][2]
• Baktamur (1310–1311)^[3]
• Sanjar al-Jawli (1311–1320)^[4]
• Muhammad ibn Baktamur (1320–1329)^[3]
• Turuntay al-Jukandari (1329–1332)^[5]
• Taynal al-Ashrafi (1332–1335)^[6]
• Sanjar al-Jawli (1342)^[4]
• Ahmad al-Hajji (1373-1375)^[7]
• Muhammad al-Adili (1375)^[8]
• Akbugha al-Safawi (1375–1381)^[9]
• Husam ad-Din Bakish (1382)^[10]
• Aqbugha al-Tulutumari (?-1398)^[11]
• Sayf ad-Din Inal al-Ala'i (1428–1433)^[12]
• Yalkhuja an-Nasiri (1445–1446)^[13]
• Sibay az-Zahiri (ca. 1482)
• Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1482–1494)^[14]
• Qani Bak (1494–1495)^[14]
• Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1495–1496)^[14]
• Dawlat Bay (1501–1517)^[15]

Ottoman

• Sharaf ad-Din Musa al-Muzaffari (1517–1524)^[16]
• Kara Şahin Mustafa (1524–1550)^{[17] [18]}
• Ridwan Pasha (1550–1565)^[17][19]
• Sinan Bey (1565–1567)^[17]
• Ridwan Pasha (1567–1572)^[17][19]
• Ahmad ibn Ridwan (1572–1601)^[17][19]
• Hasan Arab Ridwan (1601–1660)^[17][19]
• Husayn Pasha (1660–1663)^[17][20]
• Musa Pasha (1663–1679)^[21]
• Ahmad ibn Musa Pasha (1679-1690)^[21]
• Sayed Ahmad (1708–1723)
• Salih Pasha Touqan (1723–?)^[22]
• Uthman Pasha (1760–1773)^[23]
• Zahir al-Umar (1773–1774)^[24]
• Suleiman Pasha (1804–1805)^[25]
• Muhammad Abu Marraq (1805–1807)^[25]
• Muhammad Abu-Nabbut (1807–1818)^[25]
• Mustafa Bey (1818–1820)^[26]
• Abdullah Pasha (1820–1831)^[27]
• Mas'ud al-Madi (1831–1834)^[28][29]
• Mahmud Abd al-Hadi (1849)^[30]
• Ahmad Rifaat Bak ash-Sharkasi (ca. 1868)^[31]

See also

• History of Gaza

References

1. Sharon 2009, pp. 82–84.
2. Mohamed-Moain Sadek Die mamlukische Architektur der Stadt Gaza, Klaus Schwarz, 1991 pp.274-5.
3. Sharon 2009, pp. 93–94.
4. Sharon 2009, p. 85.
5. Sharon 2009, pp. 105–106.
6. Sharon 2009, pp. 108–109.
7. Philipp 1998, p. 41.
8. Philipp 1998, p. 43.
9. Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-Ṣaṣrā, A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397, University of California Press, p.15.
10. Sharon 2009, p. 133.
11. Sharon 2009, p. 142.
12. Sharon 2009, pp. 162–163.
13. Sharon 2009, p. 134.
14. Sharon, 1999, p. 150
15. Sharon 2009, p. 183.
16. Sharon 2009, p. 187.
17. Sharon 2009, p. 196.
18. Ze'evi 1996, p. 39.
19. Ze'evi 1996, p. 40.
20. Ze'evi 1996, p. 41.
21. Filiu 2014, p. 28.
22. Doumani 1995, p. 38.
23. The province of Damascus, 1723-1783. Khayats, 1966. p. 256.
24. Philipp 2001, p. 42.
25. Mattar 2005, pp. 343–344.
26. Khalidi 1992, p. 103.
27. Philipp 2001, p. 90.
28. Khalidi 1992, p. 164.
29. Schölch 1993, p. 182.
30. Macalister and Masterman 1905, p. 356.
31. Sharon 2009, p. 195.

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