Muhammad ibn Abdawayh ibn Jabalah al-Anbari (Arabic: محمد بن عبدويه بن جبلة) was a ninth-century official for the Abbasid Caliphate. During his lifetime he served as the governor of Barqah and Hims.
Career edit
Muhammad was the son of Abdawayh ibn Jabalah, a military officer and governor of Egypt during the caliphate of al-Ma'mun (r. 813–833).[1] He himself embarked on a similar career, and early in the reign of al-Wathiq (r. 842–847) he is mentioned as serving as governor of Barqah in North Africa. During his administration of that province he was faced with an uprising by a group of Berbers and tribal Arabs, which remained unsubdued until al-Wathiq dispatched the army commander Raja ibn Ayyub al-Hidari to pacify the region.[2]
In 854 Muhammad was appointed as governor of Hims after the previous head official Abu al-Mughith Musa ibn Ibrahim was forced out by the inhabitants. In the following year he was faced with a large uprising by the city's inhabitants, which he however defeated with the help of reinforcements from Damascus and Ramla. As a consequence of the revolt he was ordered by the caliph al-Mutawakkil to undertake a number of punitive measures against the city residents, including the execution of a number of local leaders and the expulsion of the entire Christian population from Hims. Al-Mutawakkil subsequently awarded him with 50,000 dirhams, as well as gifts and robes of honor, for his conduct during the event.[3]
Notes edit
- ^ For the background of this family, see Crone 1998, p. 8 & n. 68.
- ^ Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1252.
- ^ Kraemer 1989, pp. 130–31, 133–35; Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1267; Cobb 2001, p. 99; Gil 1997, pp. 296–97.
References edit
- Cobb, Paul M. (2001). White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750-880. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-4879-3.
- Crone, Patricia (1998). "The 'Abbāsid Abnā' and Sāsānid Cavalrymen". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Third. 8 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1017/S1356186300016400. JSTOR 25183463. S2CID 162406965.
- Gil, Moshe (1997) [1983]. A History of Palestine, 634–1099. Translated by Ethel Broido. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59984-9.
- Gordon, Matthew S.; Robinson, Chase F.; Rowson, Everett K.; et al., eds. (2018). The Works of Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi: An English Translation. Vol. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-35621-4.
- Kraemer, Joel L., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXIV: Incipient Decline: The Caliphates of al-Wāthiq, al-Mutawakkil and al-Muntaṣir, A.D. 841–863/A.H. 227–248. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-874-4.