Raghib mawla al-Muwaffaq

راغب مولى الموفق

A client of Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq; in 285 he led a naval raid that took many Byzantine ships, beheaded three thousand, burned the vessels and captured fortresses 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq · Anatolia
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Raghib, servant and client of Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq; in 285 he raided by sea and God granted him many Byzantine vessels with all they carried. 1

The raid

Three thousand of them were beheaded, the ships were burned, and many fortresses were taken. 1

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Allied with
Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq
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The naval raid of Raghib, mawla of al-Muwaffaq

People and things also explored

al-Muwaffaqiyya· Abu Ahmad Imprisons His Son Abu al-Abbas al-Mu'tadid· The killing of the Zanj leader· Ibn Kundaj intercepts al-Mu'tamid and confines him, 269· Al-Mu'tamid's succession deed for al-Mufawwid and al-Muwaffaq· Al-Muwaffaq's campaign against the Zanj and rescue of captives· The division of the realm between al-Mufawwid and al-Muwaffaq· Siege of Baghdad in the strife of al-Musta'in and al-Mu'tazz

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 295
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al-Muwaffaqiyya

The counter-city al-Muwaffaq built facing the Zanj capital al-Mukhtara in 267: once he saw the siege would be long he moved the merchants in, founded markets and a congregational mosque, and struck dinars and dirhams in its own mint — the staging point for the crossing into the rebels' town.