Ja'far ibn Fallah al-Kutami

جعفر بن فلاح الكتامي

c. 971 CE · 360 AH

Ja'far b. Fallah al-Kutami — al-Mu'izz's commander sent by Jawhar to Syria; took Ramla in 358 and Damascus in 359, then was killed fighting the Qarmati al-A'sam in 360 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi

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Abu 'Ali Ja'far b. Fallah al-Kutami, one of the commanders of al-Mu'izz b. Taqi al-Din al-Mansur the 'Ubaydid, lord of Ifriqiya. 1

Syria

When Jawhar took Egypt he sent him to Syria; he took Ramla in Dhu'l-Hijja 358, then Damascus in Muharram 359, and stayed there until 360 — when al-Hasan b. Ahmad the Qarmatian, known as al-A'sam, marched out against him though ill, defeated him, killed him and killed multitudes of his men. 1

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The killing of Ja'far ibn Fallah at the hands of the Qarmatian al-A'sam

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al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Qarmati al-A'sam· Damascus· The killing of Ja'far ibn Fallah at the hands of the Qarmatian al-A'sam

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Qarmati al-A'sam

al-Hasan b. Ahmad al-Qarmati, called al-A'sam — held Damascus before 360, then captured and killed the ailing Fatimid governor Ja'far b. Fallah at the dikka over the Yazid river outside Damascus on Thursday 6 Dhu'l-Qa'da 360.