List of Shia dynasties

North Africa and Europe

• Idrisid dynasty — - ZaÄ«dÄ«
• Fatimid dynasty — - Isma'Ä«lÄ«
• Banu Kanz - — Isma'Ä«lÄ«
• Zirid dynasty - — Isma'Ä«lÄ«
• Kalbids — — Isma'Ä«lÄ«
• Hammudid dynasty — — ZaÄ«dÄ«

Iran and Caucasus

• Justanids — Zaidi
• Alavids — Zaidi
• Aishanids
• Ziyarid dynasty
• Buyid dynasty — Zaidi, later converted to Twelver
• Hasanwayhid
• Kakuyids
• Nizari Ismaili state — Nizari
• Ilkhanate — Öljaitü converted to Shi‘ism around 1310 and ruled until 1316, after which the Ilkhanate reverted to Sunnism under his son AbÅ« SaÊ¿Ä«d.
• Sarbadars — Twelver
• Injuids — Twelver
• Marashiyan - Twelver
• Musha'sha'iyyah dynasty — Musha'sha
• Safavid dynasty — Twelver
• Erivan Khanate
• Kartli Bagrationi — Some Bagrationi rulers of this period professed Georgian Orthodoxy or Catholicism, Jesse converted to Sunni Islam in 1724 under Ottoman pressure.
• Kakheti Bagrationi — Some Bagrationi rulers of this period professed Georgian Orthodoxy or Catholicism.
• Afshars
• Baku Khanate
• Derbent Khanate
• Ganja Khanate
• Talysh Khanate
• Nakhichevan Khanate
• Karabakh Khanate
• Javad Khanate
• Zand dynasty - Twelver
• Qajar dynasty
• Pahlavi dynasty

Arabian Peninsula

Hijaz

• Sharifate of Mecca - Zaidi
• Sharifate of Medina - Twelver

Yemen

• Banu Ukhaidhir — Zaidi
• Rassids — Zaidi
• Sulayhid dynasty — Ismaili
• Sulaymanids – Ismaili
• Hamdanids (Yemen) – Ismaili
• Zurayids - Ismaili
• Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen — Zaidi

Bahrain

• Qarmatians — Isma'ili
• Uyunid Emirate — Twelver
• Usfurids — Twelver
• Jarwanid dynasty — Twelver
• Jabrids dynasty — Twelver

Levant and Iraq

Northern Iraq and Levant

• Hamdanid dynasty
• Numayrids
• Uqaylid Dynasty
• Mirdasids
• Banu Ammar
• Harfush dynasty
• Emirate of Jabal Amil

South and central Iraq

• Emirate of Al-Mukhtar Al-Mukhtar ruled most of Iraq, except for Basra. His rule also extended to Arminiya and Isfahan.
• Baridis dynasty They ruled Basra between the 10th and 11th centuries.
• Shahin dynasty - Formed and ruled over The Batihah, also known as The Great Swamp or The Marsh in the Iraqi Marshes.
• Mazyadids
• Kingdom of Khaza'il
• Al-Muntafiq Union It was a Shiite-Sunni confederation that included tribes in southern and central Iraq

Indian subcontinent

• Soomra dynasty — Isma'ili
• Bahmani Sultanate
• Bidar Sultanate
• Berar Sultanate
• Ahmadnagar Sultanate
• Chak dynasty
• Qutb Shahi dynasty
• Adil Shahi dynasty
• Najm-i-Sani dynasty
• Nawabs of Oudh
• Nawabs of Bengal
• Talpur dynasty
• Hunza (princely state) — Isma'ili
• Nagar (princely state)
• Prithimpassa State
• Banganapalle State