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Ubayd Allah was the son of Ziyad ibn Abihi whose tribal origins were obscure; while his mother was a Persian concubine named Murjanah. [1] Ziyad served as the Umayyad governor of Iraq and the lands east of that province, collectively known as Khurasan, during the reign of Caliph Mu'awiya I (r.
When Ziyad died, his policies were continued by his son, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, appointed governor of Khorasan, who arrived in Marw in autumn 673. In the following spring, Ubayd Allah crossed the Oxus and invaded the principality of Bukhara, which at the time was led by the queen mother or khatun , a Turkic title meaning "lady", as regent for ...
Al-Saffah then appointed Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah, his maternal uncle [3] as governor in 750. He remained in the office throughout the reign of his nephew al-Saffah. He was dismissed by al-Mansur (brother and successor of al-Saffah) in 758. Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Abd Allah al-Qasri was appointed by the caliph al-Mansur. [4]
Thus under the threat of bloodshed and violence from the Umayyad dynasty, the Kufans lapsed. Moreover, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad ordered Muslim ibn Aqil to be violently killed shortly after. [25] This raises the desperation of al-Husayn's situation even further. The truth of Kufan desertion and failed allegiance is now a reality.
Abyad (disambiguation), Arabic word and name meaning 'white'. Some transliterations of abyad may overlap with those of ubaid. Wadi al-Abyad or al-Ubayyid, wadi (valley) in Iraq; Abadiyeh (disambiguation) Ubeidiya (disambiguation) Ubayd Allah, for the many variants of that name, based upon this one and the Arabic word for "God"
Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi (Arabic: الْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد الثَّقَفِيّ, romanized: al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī; c. 622 – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen ...
Ubayd Allah (Arabic: عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God". Given name [ edit ]
Adopting the policy of bribing and terrifying the heads of important tribes, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad dispersed people from around Muslim ibn Aqil and killed him. After Muslimibn Aqil, Ubayd Allahibn Ziyad pursued Abu Thumama. He hid in his tribe for some days, [3] then secretly left Kufa along with Nafi'ibn Hilal. He joined Hussain ibn Ali on his ...