The Uqaylids (or 'Uqaylids) were a Muslim dynasty in what today is Iraq and Syria. They ruled several cities between 990 and 1096. A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ...

The Uqaylids descended from the Bedouins. In 990, Uqaylid Arabs took Mosul from the Buyids. They took hold of Jazira and Balad around 992, and of Tikrit in 1036. A Bedouin man resting on a hillside at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic (), a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Buwayhids or Buyyids or Āl-i Buyeh, were a Shiite tribal confederation from Daylam, a region on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. ... Nusaybin, formerly Nisibin, is a town in Turkey. ... Balad (Arabic: بلد) is a city 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Baghdad in Iraq. ... Looking north along the Tigris towards Saddams Presidential palace in April 2003 Tikrit (تكريت, also transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit) is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at 34. ...