Abu Ishaq al-Fazari

Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Fazari, Abu Ishaq, the jurist of the frontiers and author of the book "al-Siyar". ¹

Al-Baladhuri says that Abd al-Malik ibn Salih wrote to him asking for a ruling about the people of Cyprus. He and Makhlad ibn al-Husayn answered that they did not see anything more like the affair of Cyprus than the affair of Arabsus, and the judgement Umar ibn al-Khattab gave there. ¹

In that judgement the people of Arabsus were offered double their wealth to leave, or a year's respite after the breach; they refused, so they were given respite and then it was ruined. Al-Awza'i is quoted that Cyprus was made a peace for fourteen thousand dinars, seven for the Muslims and seven for the Byzantines, and that the Byzantines should not hide the affairs of the Muslims. He says that the breach of their peace is only valid by a matter known as their treachery and breach. ¹

See the consultation of the jurists on Cyprus.

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