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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Egypt by the governor Muzahim ibn Khaqan. During Muzahim's governorship, Azjur assisted in quelling the revolt of Jabir ibn al-Walid, and fought a battle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

province. In 866 a revolt in the region of Alexandria was begun by one Jabir ibn al-Walid and enjoyed the support of the local Arabs, Christians and mawālī...

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...

Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur al-Himyari al-Ru'ayni (Arabic: منصور بن يزيد بن منصور الحميري الرعيني) was an eighth century official for the Abbasid Caliphate...

upholding the treaty when two Kharijites, namely, Zur'a ibn al-Burj al-Ta'i and Hurqus ibn Zuhayr al-Sa'di, appealed to him to revoke it. Many of the dissidents...

Abu Abd al-Rahman Musa ibn Ulayy ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن موسى بن علي بن رباح اللخمي) (c. 707-779/80) was an Islamic scholar. Musa...

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...

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...