[1] Their domain included Asheb or Asep, Tushi or Tusi, Judaydla catles, Suri, Harur, Malasi, Babukha, Bakza and Jabal Luhayja to the north of Mosul (in the direction of Nisibis).
[2] In 979, The Hakkari tribe moved further westward crossing the Great Zab river, and taking over the Beth Daseni, an old Nestorian diocese.
[2] In 980AD, the Buyid ruler, Fanna Khusraw sent an expedition against the Hakkari tribe, probably as punishment as a response to their mass murder of Christians in Dasen.
[5] In 1041AD, after the defeat of the invading Oghuz Turks and the subsequent massacre of them in Urmia by the Rawadids, they fled to Hakkari where they ravaged it.
They were eventually defeated by the Kurds and 1500 Oghuz tribesmen were killed and the survivors were enslaved by the Hakkari Kurdish tribe.
According to some sources, he never went back to reign over his land and stayed in Mosul, leaving his son Ahmad and his deputy, Baw al-Arji to rule over his domain.
[7] The Hakkariyya along with the Hadhbaniyya, were the largest and most powerful Kurdish tribes that made up the Military oligarchy within the Ayyubid Sultanate.
In 1185, Sayf ad-Din Mashtub the commander-in-chief of the Hakkariyya regiment, Took part in Saladin's expedition against the Zengid Emirate of Mosul.
Sayf al-Din went out to meet the French Crusader king but the latter insisted on an unconditional surrender, There began desertions from the fortress.
[7] in 1218, the Zengid ruler of Mosul, ‘Izz al-Din Mas'ud II, had seized ‘imaddiyyah and the remainder of the fortresses of the Hakkâri and Zawzān.