Musawir al-Shari

مساور الشراري

877 CE · 263 AH

Musawir al-Shari, a Kharijite leader who rose at Mosul and defeated its people under the governor Uqba ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath, seized the city and drew many followers until he was killed fighting the troops in 263 AH, per Ibn Khaldun's account.

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Roles
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Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Umayyad amir of Cordova) · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu al-Ayna · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani

Overview

Musawir al-Shari'i, a leader of the Kharijites who rose against Mosul in the days of the caliph al-Mansur, according to Ibn Khaldun. 1

The rising against Mosul

He defeated the people of Mosul in the governorship of Uqba ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath, and prevailed over the city, and his followers grew in number. According to Ibn Khaldun he died in his war with the armies in the year 263 AH. 1

A second source is needed: Ibn Khaldun mentions al-Mansur and the year 263 AH together, and the gap between these two dates is clear in the data.

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Member of
Khawarij

People and things also explored

Ibadiyya· al-Khirit ibn Rashid al-Naji· Harun al-Sari al-Bajali· Khawarij

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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Ibadiyya

The Ibadiyya — followers of Abdallah ibn Ibad, the one Khariji branch to survive, in North Africa, Oman, Hadramawt and Zanzibar, with a kalam touched by the Mu'tazila and a fiqh of its own.