Arab Empire

• the Caliphate
  Caliphate
  
  The caliphate represented the political leadership of the Muslim ummah in classical and medieval Islamic history and juristic theory. The head of state's position is based on the notion of a successor to the Prophets of Islam Muhammad's political authority....
  s of the early Middle Ages:
• Rashidun Caliphate (632 - 661)
• Umayyad Caliphate (661 - 750) - Successor of the Rashidun Caliphate
• Umayyad Emirate in the Al-Andalus
  Al-Andalus
  
  Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....
   (Islamic Iberia) (750 - 929)
• Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba
  Caliphate of Córdoba
  
  The Caliphate of C?rdoba ruled the Iberian peninsula and North Africa from the city of C?rdoba, Spain, from 929 to 1031. This period was characterized by remarkable success in trade and culture; many of the masterpieces of Islamic Iberia were constructed in this period, including the famous Mezquita....
   in Islamic Iberia (929 - 1031)
• Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1258) - Successor of the Umayyad Caliphate
• Fatimid Caliphate (910 - 1171)

• Late Medieval Islamic Empires, predominantly under Berber and Turkic rule
• Almoravid dynasty, Berber
• Almohad dynasty, Berber
• Ghaznavid Empire
  Ghaznavid Empire
  
  The Ghaznavids were an Islamic and Persianate dynasty of Turkic peoples mamluk origin which existed from 975 to 1187 and ruled much of Persia, Transoxania, and the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent....
  , Turkic
• Timurid dynasty
  Timurid Dynasty
  
  The Timurids, self-designated Gurkani , were a Persianate society Central Asian Sunni Islam dynasty of originally Turko-Mongol descent whose empire included the whole of Central Asia, Iran, modern Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as large parts of India, Mesopotamia and Caucasus....
  , Turkic

• Early Modern Islamic Empires
• Mughal Empire
  Mughal Empire
  
  The Mughal Empire was a Muslim imperial power of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century....
  , Indo-Turkic
• Safavid dynasty
  Safavid dynasty
  
  The Safavids were an Iranian Shia dynasty of mixed Azerbaijani people and Kurdistan origins which ruled Persia from 1501/1502 to 1722. Safavids established the greatest Iranian empire since the Islamic conquest of Persia and established the Twelvers of Imamah as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turni...
  , Turkic
• Ottoman Empire
  Ottoman Empire
  
  The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
  , Turkic

See also

• Mongol Empire
  Mongol Empire
  
  The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires#Contiguous Empires empire and the largest bar none. It emerged from the unification of Mongols and Turkic peoples tribes in modern day Mongolia, and grew through Mongol invasions, after Genghis Khan had been proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206....
  
• Western empires