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...

Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya (Arabic: مُحَمَّد ابْن الْحَنَفِيَّة, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyya, c. 637–700, 15–81 AH) was a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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-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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī (Arabic: إسحاق بن سليمان الهاشمي) was an 8th–9th-century AD Abbasid prince and historian. He held several...

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 Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Zaynabi (Arabic: عبد الله بن محمد بن إبراهيم الزينبي) was a minor Abbasid prince. He served as the governor of several...

a grandson of Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, and was a first cousin of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah (r. 750–754) and al-Mansur (r. 754–775)...

governorship lasted until March 811, when he was dismissed in favor of Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath al-Ta'i. In 816 Hatim was appointed as governor of Arminiyah and Adharbayjan...

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...