Ayyubids

The Ayyubid emirate of Hasankeyf was a Kurdish principality on the Tigris in the Jazira, whose meliks claimed descent from Saladin's dynasty. In 1337 its melik was al-Adil Shihab al-Din.

The emirate later submitted to Timur. In the 1460s Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu besieged Hasankeyf and killed its melik Khalaf. A restored Ayyubid line recovered Hasankeyf and Siirt, but its last melik was captured by the Safavids and escaped after the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. The Ottomans dissolved the emirate in 1524.