Humayd ibn Qahtaba
Humayd ibn Qahtaba حميد بن قحطبة | |
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Governor of Jazira | |
In office 754–755 | |
Monarch | al-Mansur |
Governor of Egypt | |
In office 760–762 | |
Monarch | al-Mansur |
Preceded by | Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i |
Succeeded by | Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi |
Governor of Arminiyah | |
In office 766–768 | |
Monarch | al-Mansur |
Governor of Khorasan | |
In office 768–776 | |
Monarchs | al-Mansur, al-Mahdi |
Personal details | |
Born | Umayyad Caliphate |
Died | 776 Khorasan, Abbasid Caliphate |
Cause of death | illness (natural) |
Children | Abdallah ibn Humayd ibn Qahtaba |
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Military career | |
Allegiance | Abbasid Caliphate |
Service/ | Abbasid Army |
Rank | Military officer |
Humayd ibn Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i (Arabic: حميد بن قحطبة) was a senior military leader in the early Abbasid Caliphate.
Biography
Humayd was the son of Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, who along with Abu Muslim led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad Caliphate. Along with his brother Hasan, Humayd was active in the Abbasid cause in Khurasan during the years before the Revolution, serving as a deputy naqib.[1]
After the Revolution, Humayd attached himself to the governor of Syria, Abdallah ibn Ali, and even joined him when he rebelled against the Caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775) in 754. He soon regretted his decision, however, and escaped Abdallah's camp before his final defeat.[1][2] Nevertheless, he was soon entrusted with governorships by Mansur, first in the Jazira (754/55), where he faced a determined Kharijite rebellion, and then in Egypt (759/61).[1][2] In 762/63 he served under Isa ibn Musa in the suppression of the rebellion of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya. Three years later, he was appointed to Armenia, and in 768, he was named governor of Khurasan, a post he kept until his death in 776.[1][2] He was briefly succeeded by his son, Abdallah, who later played a prominent role in the civil war of the Fourth Fitna.[3] As with most of the old Abbasid families, they lost power, although not their wealth, after the triumph of al-Ma'mun in the civil war.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d Crone (1980), p. 188
- ^ a b c d Kennedy (1986), p. 80
- ^ Crone (1980), pp. 188–189
Sources
- Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
- Kennedy, Hugh (1986). The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7099-3115-8.
Preceded by | Governor of Egypt 760–762 | Succeeded by |
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- Salih ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas (Second Term)
- Abu Awn Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid (Second Term)
- Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi
- Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i
- Humayd ibn Qahtaba
- Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi
- Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj al-Tujibi
- Musa ibn Ali ibn Rabah al-Lakhmi
- Isa ibn Luqman al-Jumahi
- Wadih al-Maskin
- Mansur ibn Yazid ibn Mansur
- Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Harashi
- Salim ibn Sawada al-Tamimi
- Ibrahim ibn Salih ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas
- Musa ibn Mus'ab al-Khath'ami
- Ali ibn Sulayman al-Abbasi
- Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Abbasi
- Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali
- Muhammad ibn Zuhayr al-Azdi
- Dawud ibn Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi
- Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Abbasi (Second Term)
- Ibrahim ibn Salih ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas
- Abdallah ibn al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi
- Ishaq ibn Sulayman
- Harthama ibn A'yan
- Abd al-Malik ibn Salih
- Abdallah ibn al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi (Second Term)
- Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi al-Abbasi
- Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Abbasi (Third Term)
- Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi al-Abbasi (Second Term)
- Isma'il ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Abbasi
- Isma'il ibn Isa al-Abbasi
- Al-Layth ibn al-Fadl
- Ahmad ibn Ismail ibn Ali ibn Abdallah al-Abbasi
- Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Abbasi
- Al-Husayn ibn Jamil
- Malik ibn Dalham al-Kalbi
- Abbad ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyan
- Al-Muttalib ibn Abdallah al-Khuza'i
- Al-Abbas ibn Musa ibn Isa al-Abbasi
- Al-Muttalib ibn Abdallah al-Khuza'i (Second Term)
- Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam
- Sulayman ibn Ghalib ibn Jibril al-Bajali
- Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam (Second Term)
- Abu Nasr ibn al-Sari
- Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Mazyad
- Ubaydallah ibn al-Sari
- Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani
- Isa ibn Yazid al-Juludi
- Umayr ibn al-Walid
- Isa ibn Yazid al-Juludi (Second Term)
- Abdawayh ibn Jabalah
- Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafi'i
- Al-Ma'mun (Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate)
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