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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier

استقلال عبد الرحمن بن حبيب بثغر المغرب

between 743 and 752 CE

Ifriqiya

In al-Baladhuri: when al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik rose, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri opposed him — beloved in that frontier for his grandfather Uqba ibn Nafi's traces there — and prevailed over it, Hanzala withdrawing; Yazid ibn al-Walid sent no governor to the Maghreb, and when Marwan ibn Muhammad rose, Abd al-Rahman corresponded with him, showed obedience and sent gifts — his scribe being Khalid ibn Rabi'a al-Ifriqi, between whom and Abd al-Hamid ibn Yahya ran friendship and letters — so Marwan confirmed him over the frontier; then Ilyas ibn Habib ruled after him, then Habib ibn Abd al-Rahman, then the Berbers and the Ibadis of the Khawarij prevailed.

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Era
The Umayyad Period
Region
Maghreb
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Umayyad Period

Overview

al-Baladhuri reports that Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri took control of the frontier of Ifriqiya when al-Walid ibn Yazid rose. 1

The account

Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib broke with al-Walid. He cherished that frontier because of what his grandfather Uqba ibn Nafi had left there. Hanzala withdrew from it, and Abd al-Rahman stayed. When Yazid ibn al-Walid became caliph, he did not send a governor to the Maghrib. When Marwan ibn Muhammad rose, Abd al-Rahman wrote to him, professed obedience and sent him gifts, and Marwan confirmed him over the frontier. 1

After him

He was succeeded by Ilyas ibn Habib, then Habib ibn Abd al-Rahman, and then the Berbers and the Ibadi Kharijites prevailed. 1

Needs an additional source: the date; the conversion to CE is derived.

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حنظلة بن صفوان الكلبي· Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri
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Ifriqiya

People and things also explored

Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Raid on Sus and the Sudan Lands· The First Raid on Ifriqiya and the Killing of Its Patrikios· The Founding of Qayrawan· Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina· The First Entry of the Arab Tribes into Ifriqiya· Harun's Appointment of Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab over the Maghreb· Ifriqiya's rising and reconquest (27 AH)· Isma'il ibn Abdallah and Umar II's Mission to the Berbers

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p. 325
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Raid on Sus and the Sudan Lands

In al-Baladhuri: Abdallah ibn al-Habhab, mawla of Banu Salul, was employed over Ifriqiya, and he sent raiding Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib ibn Abi Ubayda ibn Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri to Sus and the Sudan lands — he triumphed as none had ever seen, taking among their women two girls each with but a single breast, they being called Tarajan — a copy's margin noting them of a race called al-Barbarwajan.