Sayf al-Dawla (disambiguation)
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Sayf al-Dawla (Arabic: سيف الدولة, "Sword of the Dynasty") was the honorific epithet of Ali ibn Abu'l-Hayja Abdallah, Hamdanid emir of Aleppo in 945–967.
Other people who have held the same epithet include:
- Buluggin ibn Ziri, first Zirid emir of Ifriqiya, 972–984
- Mahmud of Ghazni received the title in 994, three years before he became ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire
- Sayf al-Dawla Mahmud ibn Ibrahim, son of Ibrahim of Ghazna, governor of India ca. 1077
- Sayf al-Dawla Sadaqa ibn Mazyad, emir of the Mazyadids of Iraq, 1086–1107
- Sayf al-Dawla ibn Hud al-Mustansir, Andalusian adventurer, briefly ruler of Córdoba in 1145
- Sayf al-Dawla Tankiz al-Husami al-Nasiri, 14th-century Mamluk governor of Syria
- Najabut Ali Khan, Nawab of Bengal, 1766–1770
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