Isma'il ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi

Ismaʿīl ibn ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā al-Hāshimī (Arabic: إسماعيل بن عيسى بن موسى الهاشمي) was an Abbasid personage and governor of Egypt.

Isma'il ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi
إسماعيل بن عيسى بن موسى الهاشمي
Abbasid Governor of Egypt
In office
798 – 798
(less than a year)
MonarchHarun Al-Rashid
Preceded byIsma'il ibn Salih
Succeeded byAl-Layth ibn al-Fadl
Personal details
RelationsAbbasid dynasty
Parent
RelativesMusa (brother)

The son of Isa ibn Musa,[1] he was appointed to Egypt by his second cousin Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) in 798. After an administration lasting for a few months, he was dismissed and replaced with al-Layth ibn al-Fadl.[2]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 109 gives his full name as "Isma'il ibn Isa ibn Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn Ali(?) ibn al-Abbas al-Abbasi al-Hashimi." See also Ibn Qutaybah n.d., p. 376.
  2. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 138–39; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 109. Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 464 does not mention him as a governor. See also Bosworth 1989, p. 30 n. 124.

References edit

  • Bosworth, C. E., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXX: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Mūsā al-Hādī and Hārūn al-Rashīd, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–192. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-564-4.
  • Ibn Qutaybah, Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Muslim (n.d.). Ukashah, Tharwat (ed.). Al-Ma'arif (4th ed.). Cairo: al-Dar Ma'arif.
  • Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
  • Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1985). al-Umari, Akram Diya' (ed.). Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat, 3rd ed (in Arabic). Al-Riyadh: Dar Taybah.
  • Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
Preceded by Governor of Egypt
798
Succeeded by