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Mushay'il the Armenian

موشائيل الأرمني

Mushay'il the Armenian; chief of Armenia's people when they rose in al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i's governorship — after the removal of Ibn Asid and Bakkar ibn Muslim al-Uqayli — whereupon al-Mansur sent reinforcements under Amir ibn Isma'il, and al-Hasan met Mushay'il, who was killed, his hosts scattered.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Mushayil al-Armani, head of the people of Armenia when they broke away, and the leader of the rebels in this event. 1

The revolt

It happened in the governorship of al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i, after the removal of Ibn Asid and Bakkar ibn Muslim al-Uqayli. Al-Mansur sent him reinforcements under the command of Amir ibn Isma'il, and al-Hasan met him in battle, killed him, and his forces scattered. 1

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Armenia's Rising under al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba

People and things also explored

al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i· Abu Ja'far al-Mansur· Armenia· Bardha'a (Partaw)· al-Baylaqan· Armenia's Rising under al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.295
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al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i

al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i of Kufa, commander of the Khurasani army and da'i of the Abbasid da'wa; in al-Baladhuri: he raided Byzantine lands in year 162 with the men of Khurasan, Mosul and Syria, Yemenite reinforcements and the volunteers of Iraq and the Hijaz, fighting so well and harrying the Byzantine land until they named him the Shaytan, with him Mandal al-Anazi al-Haddathi al-Kufi and Mu'tajir ibn Sulayman al-Basri; coming out he camped at Tarsus's meadow, circled its ruined city and reckoned its capacity at a hundred thousand, describing it to al-Mahdi and so rousing him to build it — the origin of its settlement.