Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a

Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a, the amir Abu Nu'ama al-Tamimi al-Mazini, the renowned champion and head of the Kharijites; he rose in the days of Ibn al-Zubayr, defeated armies and his scourge grew overwhelming. ¹

Al-Hajjaj sent army after army against him and he broke them, prevailing over the land of Fars; his exploits were legendary, his bravery unheard of, and his verse famous. He was killed in 79 AH. ¹

Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a struck dirhams of the Arab-Sasanian type with the title "Commander of the Faithful". The Umm Hajara hoard holds two of them: one struck at Bishapur in the year 75 whose Pahlavi legend reads "Abd Allah Qatari, Commander of the Faithful", and another with "Qatari, Commander of the Faithful" from an unidentified mint; both carry in Arabic in the margin "no judgement but God's", the motto adopted by the Kharijites. ² Muhammad Abu al-Faraj al-Ush notes that the Kharijite leader's name in the form "Abd Allah Qatari" appears in no historical or literary source, and that one of the two dirhams had no published parallel. ² The Islamic Coins booklet in Doha shows a dirham of his dated 75 AH from the mint of Ardashir. ³