List of rulers of Islamic Egypt
Governors of Arab Egypt and Mamluk Egypt. For other periods, see the list of rulers of Egypt.
The Rashidun Caliphs era (640–658)
See Rashidun Caliphate.Umayyad Caliphate era (659–750)
See Umayyad Caliphate.| # | Governor | Start | End | Comments |
| 1 | 'Amr ibn al-'As | 658 | 664 | Conqueror of Egypt. Died in office |
| 2 | Utba ibn Abi Sufyan | 664 | 665 | Brother of Mu'awiya I. Died |
| 3 | Uqba ibn Amir | 665 | 667 | Muleteer of Muhammad. Unseated |
| 4 | Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari | 667 | 682 | Leading Umayyad partisan in Egypt. Died in office |
| 5 | Sa'id ibn Yazid ibn Alqama al-Azdi | 682 | 684 | Unseated |
| 6 | Abd al-Rahman ibn Utba al-Fihri | 684 | 684 | Appointed by Ibn al-Zubayr |
| 7 | Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam | 685 | 705 | Died in office |
| 8 | Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam | 705 | 709 | Unseated |
| 9 | Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi | 709 | 715 | Died in office |
| 10 | Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi | 715 | 717 | Unseated |
| 11 | Ayyub ibn Sharhabil | 717 | 720 | - |
| 12 | Bishr ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | 720 | 721 | Became the governor of Ifriqiya |
| 13 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | 721 | 724 | - |
| 14 | Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan | 724 | 724 | Resigned after witnessing an epidemic |
| 15 | Al-Hurr ibn Yusuf | 724 | 727 | Died in office. Egypt under the de facto rule of Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab. |
| 16 | Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi | 727 | 727 | Egypt under the de facto rule of Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab. |
| 17 | Al-Walid ibn Rifa'a ibn Thabit al-Fahmi | 727 | 735 | Unseated. Egypt under the de facto rule of Ubayd Allah ibn al-Habhab. |
| 18 | Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid al-Fahmi | 735 | 737 | Unseated |
| 19 | Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi | 737 | 741 | Became the Wali of Africa |
| 20 | Hafs ibn al-Walid ibn Yusuf al-Hadrami | 741 | 744 | Resigned |
| 21 | Hasan ibn Atahiya | 744 | 744 | Ran away after opposition by the Hafsiya |
| 22 | Hafs ibn al-Walid ibn Yusuf al-Hadrami | 744 | 745 | Installed by the Hfsiya, surrendered to his successor without a fight |
| 23 | al-Hawthala ibn Suhayl al-Bahili | 745 | 749 | Unseated |
| 24 | Al-Mughira ibn Ubayd al-Fazari | 749 | 749 | Died |
| 25 | Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn Musa ibn Nusayr | 749 | 749 | Unseated by the Abbasids |
Abbasid Caliphate era (750–969)
See Abbasid Caliphate.Governors during the First Abbasid Period (750–868)
| # | Governor | Start | End | Period | Governor Title | Fate |
| 1 | Salih ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas | 750 | 751 | 1 year | Wali | Became the wali of Palestine |
| 2 | Abu Awn Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid | 751 | 753 | 2 years | Wali | Ran away after an epidemic |
| 3 | Salih ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas | 753 | 755 | 2 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 4 | Abu Awn Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid | 755 | 758 | 3 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 5 | Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi | 758 | 759 | 1 year | Wali | Died |
| 6 | Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i | 759 | 760 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 7 | Humayd ibn Qahtaba | 760 | 762 | 2 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 8 | Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi | 762 | 769 | 8 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 9 | Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi | 769 | 772 | 4 years | Wali | Died |
| 10 | Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi | 772 | 772 | 8 months | Wali | Died |
| 11 | Musa ibn Ali ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi | 772 | 778 | 6 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 12 | Isa ibn Luqman al-Jumahi | 778 | 779 | 4 months | Wali | Unseated |
| 13 | Wadih | 779 | 779 | 4 months | Wali | Unseated |
| 14 | Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur | 779 | 779 | 2 months | Wali | Unseated |
| 15 | Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harashi | 779 | 780 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 16 | Salim ibn Sawada al-Tamimi | 780 | 781 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 17 | Ibrahim ibn Salih ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas | 781 | 784 | 3 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 18 | Musa ibn Mus'ab al-Khath'ami | 784 | 785 | 1 year | Wali | Killed |
| 19 | Asama ibn Amr | 785 | 785 | 2 months | Wali | Unseated |
| 20 | al-Fadl ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Abbasi | 785 | 786 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 21 | Ali ibn Sulayman al-Abbasi | 786 | 787 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated by the new Abbasid wali |
| 22 | Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Abbasi | 787 | 789 | 2 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 23 | Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali | 789 | 789 | 11 months | Wali | Unseated |
| 24 | Muhammad ibn Zuhayr al-Azdi | 789 | 790 | 6 months | Wali | Unseated |
| 25 | Dawud ibn Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi | 790 | 791 | 1 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 26 | Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Abbasi | 791 | 792 | 1 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 27 | Ibrahim ibn Salih ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas | 792 | 792 | Less than a year | Wali | Died |
| 28 | Abdallah ibn al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi | 792 | 793 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 29 | Ishaq ibn Sulayman | 793 | 794 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 30 | Harthama ibn A'yan | 794 | 795 | 1 year | Wali | Became the wali of Ifriqiya |
| 31 | Abd al-Malik ibn Salih | 795 | 795 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| - | Abdallah ibn al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi | 795 | 795 | Less than a year | Deputy to Abd al-Malik ibn Salih | - |
| 32 | Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi al-Abbasi | 795 | 795 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 33 | Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Abbasi | 795 | 796 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 34 | Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi al-Abbasi | 796 | 797 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 35 | Isma'il ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Abbasi | 797 | 798 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 36 | Isma'il ibn Isa al-Abbasi | 798 | 798 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 37 | Al-Layth ibn al-Fadl | 798 | 803 | 5 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 38 | Ahmad ibn Ismail ibn Ali ibn Abdallah al-Abbasi | 803 | 805 | 2 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 39 | Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Abbasi | 805 | 806 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 40 | Al-Husayn ibn Jamil | 806 | 808 | 2 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 41 | Malik ibn Dalham al-Kalbi | 808 | 808 | 9 Months | Wali | Unseated |
| 42 | Al-Hasan ibn al-Takhtakh | 809 | 809 | 11 Months | Wali | Unseated |
| 43 | Hatim ibn Harthamah ibn A'yan | 810 | 811 | 1 year | Wali | Unseated |
| 44 | Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath al-Ta'i | 811 | 812 | 1 year | Wali | Beaten off from Egypt |
| 45 | Abbad ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyan | 812 | 813 | 1 Year | Wali | Unseated |
| 46 | Al-Muttalib ibn Abdallah al-Khuza'i | 813 | 814 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 47 | Al-Abbas ibn Musa ibn Isa al-Abbasi | 814 | 814 | Less than a year | Wali | - |
| 48 | Al-Muttalib ibn Abdallah al-Khuza'i | 814 | 815 | Less than a year | Wali | Beaten off from Egypt |
| 49 | Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam | April 816 | September 816 | 6 months | Wali | Soldiers revolted against him |
| 50 | Sulayman ibn Ghalib ibn Jibril al-Bajali | September 816 | March 817 | 5 months | Wali | Soldiers revolted against him |
| 51 | Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam | March 817 | November 820 | 3 years | Wali | - |
| 52 | Abu Nasr ibn al-Sari | 820 | 822 | 2 years | Wali | - |
| 53 | Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mazyad | 822 | 822 | Wali | - | |
| 54 | Ubaydallah ibn al-Sari | 822 | 826 | 3 years | Wali | Unseated by the new wali |
| 55 | Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani | 826 | 827 | 17 months | Wali | Departed for Iraq |
| 56 | Isa ibn Yazid al-Juludi | 827 | 829 | 2 years | Deputy to Abdallah ibn Tahir | Unseated |
| 57 | Umayr ibn al-Walid | 829 | 829 | Less than a year | Wali | Appointed by Abu Ishaq, killed in an anti-taxation rebellion |
| 58 | Isa ibn Yazid al-Juludi | 829 | 830 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 59 | Abdawayh ibn Jabalah | 830 | 831 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 60 | Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafi'i | 831 | 832 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 61 | Kaydar Nasr ibn Abdallah | 832 | 834 | 2 years | Wali | Died |
| 62 | Muzaffar ibn Kaydar | 834 | 834 | 4 months | Wali | Unseated |
| 63 | Musa ibn Abi al-Abbas | 834 | 839 | 5 years | Wali | - |
| 64 | Malik ibn Kaydar | 839 | 841 | 2 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 65 | Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani | 841 | 843 | 2 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 66 | Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafi'i | 843 | 847 | 4 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 67 | Harthamah ibn al-Nadr al-Jabali | 847 | 849 | 1 year | Wali | Died |
| 68 | Hatim ibn Harthamah ibn al-Nadr | 849 | 849 | 1 Month | Wali | Unseated |
| 69 | Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani | 849 | 850 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 70 | Ishaq ibn Yahya ibn Mu'adh | 850 | 851 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 71 | Khut Abd al-Wahid ibn Yahya | 851 | 852 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
| 72 | Anbasah ibn Ishaq al-Dabbi | 852 | 856 | 4 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 73 | Yazid ibn Abdallah al-Hulwani | 856 | 867 | 10 years | Wali | Unseated |
| 74 | Muzahim ibn Khaqan | 867 | 868 | Less than a year | Wali | Died |
| 75 | Ahmad ibn Muzahim ibn Khaqan | 868 | 868 | Less than a year | Wali | Died |
| 76 | Azjur al-Turki | 868 | 868 | Less than a year | Wali | Unseated |
Emirs of the Tulunid Dynasty (868–905)
See Tulunid Dynasty.| # | Emir | Start | End | Period | Fate |
| 1 | Ahmad ibn Tulun | 15 September 868 | 10 May 884 | 16 years | Died |
| 2 | Khumarawayh | 10 May 884 | 18 January 896 | 12 years | Murdered |
| 3 | Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh | 18 January 896 | November 896 | 9 months | Unseated then died in jail |
| 4 | Harun | November 896 | 30 December 904 | 8 years | Murdered |
| 5 | Shayban | 30 December 904 | 10 January 905 | 10 days | Surrendered to the Abbasids |
Governors during the Second Abbasid Period (905–935)
| # | Governor | Start | End | Period | Fate |
| 1 | Isa al-Nushari | 905 | 910 | 5 years | Died |
| 2 | Takin al-Khassa Abu Mansur Takin ibn Abdallah al-Harbi al-Khazari | 910 | 915 | 5 years | Unseated |
| 3 | Dhuka al-Rumi | 915 | 919 | 4 years | Died |
| 4 | Takin al-Khassa Abu Mansur Takin ibn Abdallah al-Harbi al-Khazari | 920 | 921 | 1 year | Unseated |
| 5 | Abu'l-Hasan Hilal ibn Badr | 921 | 923 | 2 years | Unseated |
| 6 | Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh | 923 | 924 | 7 months | Unseated |
| 7 | Takin al-Khassa Abu Mansur Takin ibn Abdallah al-Harbi al-Khazari | 924 | 933 | 9 years | Died |
| 8 | Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh | 933 | 935 | 1 year | Unseated |
Emirs of the Ikhshidid Dynasty (935–969)
See Ikshidid Dynasty.Fatimid Dynasty (969–1171)
See Fatimid dynasty.| # | Governor | Start | End | Title | Fate |
| 1 | Jawhar al-Siqilli | 969 | 973 | Governor, following the Fatimid conquest of Egypt | - |
| 2 | Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah | 973 | 975 | Caliph | Died |
| 3 | Al-Aziz Billah | 975 | 997 | Caliph | Died |
| 4 | Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah | 997 | 1020 | Caliph | Disappeared |
| 5 | Ali az-Zahir | 1020 | 1036 | Caliph | - |
| 6 | Al-Mustansir Billah | 1036 | 1094 | Caliph | Died after reigned for 60 years |
| 7 | Al-Musta'li | 1094 | 1102 | Caliph | - |
| 8 | Al-Amir bi-Ahkami'l-Lah | 1102 | 1131 | Caliph | Killed |
| 9 | Al-Hafiz | 1131 | 1150 | Caliph | - |
| 10 | Al-Zafir | 1150 | 1154 | Caliph | Killed after unseated |
| 11 | Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah | 1154 | 1160 | Caliph | Died |
| 12 | Al-Adid li-Din Allah | 1160 | 1171 | Caliph | Unseated by Saladin |
Ayyubid Sultanate (1171–1252)
See Ayyubid Dynasty.* Shajar al-Durr widow of As-Salih Ayyub ruled as sultana after the assassination of Turanshah.
Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)
Bahri Mamluks">Bahri dynasty">Bahri Mamluks (1250–1382)
| # | Name | Start | End | Title | Fate | Picture |
| 1 | Izz al-Din Aybak | 1250 | 1257 | Sultan | Assassinated by Shajar ad-Dur | No image available |
| 2 | al-Mansur Nour al-Din Ali | 1257 | 1259 | Sultan | Dethroned by Seif al-Din | No image available |
| 3 | al-Muzafar Seif al-Din Qutuz | 1259 | 1260 | Sultan | Assassinated by al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari | No image available |
| 4 | al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari | 1260 | 1277 | Sultan | Died | |
| 5 | al-Said Nasir al-Din Barakah | 1277 | 1279 | Sultan | Resigned | No image available |
| 6 | al-Adel Badr al-Din Solamish | 1279 | 1279 | Sultan | Dethroned | No image available |
| 7 | al-Mansour Seif al-Din Qalawun | 1279 | 1290 | Sultan | Died | No image available |
| 8 | al-Ashraf Salah al-Din Khalil | 1290 | 1293 | Sultan | Assassinated | No image available |
| 9 | al-Nasir Nasir al-Din Mohamed Ben Qalawun | 1293 | 1294 | Sultan | Dethroned | No image available |
| 10 | al-Adil Zein al-Din Katubgha | 1294 | 1296 | Sultan | Escaped | No image available |
| 11 | al-Mansour Hossam al-Din Lajin | 1296 | 1299 | Sultan | Assassinated | No image available |
| 12 | al-Nasir Nasir al-Din Mohamed Ben Qalawun | 1299 | 1309 | Sultan | Resigned | No image available |
| 13 | al-Muzafar Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Jashnakir | 1309 | 1309 | Sultan | Executed | No image available |
| 14 | al-Nasir Nasir al-Din Mohamed Ben Qalawun | 1309 | 1340 | Sultan | Died | No image available |
| 15 | al-Mansour Saif al-Din Abu Bakr | 1340 | 1341 | Sultan | Dethroned | No image available |
| 16 | al-Ashraf Ala'a al-Din Kujuk | 1341 | 1342 | Sultan | Dethroned | No image available |
| 17 | al-Nasir Shihab al-Din Ahmad | 1342 | 1342 | Sultan | Dethroned | No image available |
| 18 | al-Salih Imad al-Din Abu Ismail | 1342 | 1345 | Sultan | Died | No image available |
| 19 | al-Kamil Seif al-Din Shaban | 1345 | 1346 | Sultan | Killed | No image available |
| 20 | al-Muzafar Zein al-Din Hagi | 1346 | 1347 | Sultan | Killed | No image available |
| 21 | al-Nasir Badr al-Din Abu al-Ma'aly al-Hassan | 1347 | 1351 | Sultan | Dethroned | No image available |
| 22 | al-Salih Salah al-Din Ben Mohamed | 1351 | 1354 | Sultan | Custody | No image available |
| 23 | al-Nasir Badr al-Din Abu al-Ma'aly al-Hassan | 1354 | 1361 | Sultan | Disappeared /prob. killed | No image available |
| 24 | al-Mansur Salah al-Din Mohamed Ben Hagi | 1361 | 1363 | Sultan | Dethroned for insanity | No image available |
| 25 | Al-Ashraf Sha'ban | 1363 | 1376 | Sultan | Executed | No image available |
| 26 | al-Mansur Ala-ad-Din Ali Ibn al-Ashraf Shaban | 1376 | 1381 | Sultan | Died in epidemic | No image available |
| 27 | Al-Salih Hajji | 1381 | 1382 | Sultan | Resigned | No image available |