Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Qasri
Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Qasri was a son of the famed Khalid al-Qasri, the longtime (724–738) governor of Iraq for the Umayyads.[1]
During the Abbasid Revolution, he participated in the uprising at Kufa at the approach of the Abbasid army,[1] and later was appointed governor of Mecca, Medina, and Ta'if by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur.[2]
References
- 1 2 Crone 1980, p. 102.
- ↑ Crone 1980, p. 103.
Sources
- Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on horses: the evolution of the Islamic polity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
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