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The Killing of Kulthum ibn Iyad in Ifriqiya

قتل كلثوم بن عياض بإفريقية

between 724 and 743 CE

Ifriqiya

In al-Baladhuri on Ibn al-Kalbi's report: Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik gave Kulthum ibn Iyad ibn Wahwah al-Qushayri Ifriqiya, whose people rose against him so that he was killed there.

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

Overview

Al-Baladhuri relates from Ibn al-Kalbi that Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik appointed Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qushayri over Ifriqiya. Its people rose against him, and he was killed there. 1

The event belongs to Hisham's reign, and the Gregorian date is derived. What is not covered here: the details of the revolt and the killing. This needs an additional source.

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Ifriqiya
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كلثوم بن عياض القشيري· هشام بن عبد الملك

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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier· al-Junayd's Khurasan and the Turkish War· al-Mubarak Canal and the Tigris Pontoon· The First Raid on Ifriqiya and the Killing of Its Patrikios· The Founding of Qayrawan· The Building of al-Rafiqa· Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina· The First Entry of the Arab Tribes into Ifriqiya

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier

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.