Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Yahya al-Ta'i (Arabic: جابر بن الأشعث بن يحيى الطائي) was a governor of Egypt, from 811 to 812. He was appointed in March 811...

is said to have killed Husayn's son Ali al-Akbar. Yet Asma ibn Kharija al-Fazari and Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Kindi escaped Mukhtar unharmed. The former...

Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i (Arabic: محمد بن الاشعث الخزاعي) was an early Abbasid follower and later became Abbasid governor in Iran, Egypt and...

predecessor Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Tarabi and the rebel Harb ibn Ubaydah, who had joined forces in order to contest his appointment. When al-Layth reached...

ibn Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i (Arabic: حميد بن قحطبة) was a senior military leader in the early Abbasid Caliphate. Humayd was the son of Qahtaba ibn...

caliph al-Amin and support his rival al-Ma'mun instead, and when al-Amin's governor Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath al-Ta'i was overthrown by an army coup in early...

Al-Faḍl ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās (Arabic: الفضل بن صالح بن علي بن عبد الله العباسي) (740–789) was the Abbasid governor of a number...

Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (Arabic: يزيد بن حاتم المهلبي) (died March 13, 787) was a member of the Muhallabid family who served as the governor of Adharbayjan...

Al-Hasan ibn al-Takhtakh (Arabic: الحسن بن التختاخ) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 808 to 809. He was appointed as governor by...

'Alī ibn Yaḥyā al-Armanī (Arabic: علي بن يحيى الأرمني) was a Muslim military commander of the mid-9th century, involved in the border warfare with the...

Harthamah ibn al-Nadr (or al-Nasr) al-Jabali (Arabic: هرثمة بن النضر الجبلي) was a ninth century provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate, serving...

Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās (Arabic: صالح بن علي بن عبد الله بن العباس) (711–769) was a member of the Banu Abbas who served as general...

Dawud ibn Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (Arabic: داود بن يزيد بن حاتم المهلبي) (died 820 or 821) was a provincial governor for the Abbasid dynasty in the...

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: عبد الملك بن صالح بن علي) (Ἀβιμελέχ, Abimelech, in Greek sources; 750–812 CE) was a member of the Banu Abbas...

Sulayman ibn Ghalib ibn Jibril al-Bajali (Arabic: سليمان بن غالب بن جبريل البجلي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 816 to 817. Sulayman...

Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafiqi, (Arabic: عيسى بن منصور الرافقي; died 847) alternatively known as al-Rafi'i, was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate...

Ahmad 'Abdallah (ed.). Tarikh al-Mawsil (in Arabic). Vol. 1. Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah. Al-Baladhuri, Ahmad ibn Jabir (1916). The Origins of the...

ibn Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i (Arabic: مطلب بن عبدالله بن مالك الخزاعي) was a son of the Abbasid general and administrator Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i...

ibn Harthamah ibn al-Nadr (Arabic: حاتم بن هرثمة بن النضر) was a provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate. Hatim was the son of Harthamah ibn al-Nadr...

Isa ibn Luqman al-Jumahi (Arabic: عيسى بن لقمان الجمحي) was an eighth century official of the Abbasid Caliphate. A member of the Jumah clan of the Quraysh...

Al-Abbās ibn Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā (Arabic: العباس بن موسى بن عيسى) (died 815) was a minor member of the Abbasid dynasty. He held various posts in the late eighth...

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن معاوية بن حديج التجيبي) (died September 772) was a governor...

Harlow: Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-40525-7. History of Muslim Egypt Shajar al-Durr has often been referred to as a "Sultana", but there is in fact no feminine...

Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī (Arabic: إبراهيم بن صالح بن علي الهاشمي; died 792) was a member of the Banu al-Abbas who served as a governor of...

Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi (Arabic: موسى بن كعب التميمي) was an 8th-century Arab commander during the Abbasid Revolution and then provincial governor for...

Assamah ibn Amr al-Ma'afiri (Arabic: عسامة بن عمرو المعافري) (died 792) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate in 785. Assamah was a leading...

Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن بن معاوية بن حديج التجيبي) (died January 772) was a governor...

Abdallah ibn al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi (Arabic: عبد الله بن المسيب بن زهير الضبي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 792 to...

Muhammad ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi (Arabic: محمد بن زهير الأزدي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 789 to 790. He was appointed to the...

Salim ibn Sawadah al-Tamimi (Arabic: سالم بن سوادة التميمي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 780 to 781. He was appointed by the...