Inalids

The Inalids (the sons of İnal or Yinal, ) was the name of a small Turkish beylik (principality) which reigned in a small territory around Amid (modern Diyarbakır in Turkey) between 1098–1183.

Melikşah, the sultan of the Great Seljuk Empire, died in 1092. After his death, the western provinces of the empire began to disintegrate. In 1095, the governor of the city of Amid (modern Diyarbakır) was a Turkmen lord () named Sadr. He defeated other Turkmen lords who tried to capture Amid. After his death his son İnal (Yinal, Inal) declared independence. However, İnal soon died and during the reign of İbrahim, the small principality had to accept the suzerainty of its more powerful neighbours; first the Seljuks of Syria, then the Great Seljuk Empire, then the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm (1105) and finally the Sökmenli (Ahlatshahs) (1109).