Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A note on conventions
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONQUEST SOCIETY
- PART III THE FAILURE OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE
- APPENDICES
- I The ashrāf of Syria and Iraq
- II The subgovernors of Syria, 685–744 [65–126]
- III The subgovernors of Iraq and its dependencies, 694–744 [75–126]
- IV The Yamaniyya and the Qaysiyya
- V The ʻAbbāsid servants, 750–813 [132–98]
- VI Mawlā in the sense of ‘kinsman’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Prosopographical Index
III - The subgovernors of Iraq and its dependencies, 694–744 [75–126]
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A note on conventions
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONQUEST SOCIETY
- PART III THE FAILURE OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE
- APPENDICES
- I The ashrāf of Syria and Iraq
- II The subgovernors of Syria, 685–744 [65–126]
- III The subgovernors of Iraq and its dependencies, 694–744 [75–126]
- IV The Yamaniyya and the Qaysiyya
- V The ʻAbbāsid servants, 750–813 [132–98]
- VI Mawlā in the sense of ‘kinsman’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Prosopographical Index
Summary
This list excludes most governors said to have been appointed by the caliph, all governors of Mecca and Medina (which were dependencies of Iraq under Ḥajjāj and Yūsuf b. ‘Umar), and all governors between 99 and 102. The last omission is due to the fact that between 99 and 102 Iraq was first shared between two men, ʻAbd al-ḥamīd b. ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī and ʻAdī b. Artāh al-Fazārī who were appointed to Kufa and Basra respectively, and next given over to Maslama who was in office for less than a year, so that the number of subgovernors appointed by each of the three is very small. Within these limits the list should be reasonably complete.
ḤAJJĀJ B. YŪSUF AL-THAQAFĪ/QAYS (75–95)
(1) ʻAbdallāh b. Abī ‘Uṣayfir al-Thaqafī/Qays. Governor of Madā’ in 76 (Ṭabarī, ser. ii, p. 899). He had apparently been governor there already in the Zubayrid period and possibly stayed on till he was dismissed by Ḥajjāj in the course of the Shabīb affair in 76 [ibid., p. 929; Balādhurī, Ansāb, vol. v, p. 192).
(2)ʻAbdallāh b. ʻĀmir al-Shaybānī/Rabīʻa. A local sharīf who was head of the shurṭa in Basra (cf. Appendix I, no. 28).
(3)ʻAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. al-Ashʻath al-Kindā/Yemen. A Kufan sharīf who was governor of Sīstān (cf. Appendix I, no. 21).
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