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Sulayman ibn Qayrat

سليمان بن قيراط

al-Mahdi's mawla, owner of Sahrat Qayrat at Madinat al-Salam; in al-Baladhuri keeper of the caliph's meadows and flocks at Sisar — on his report of the brigands al-Mahdi ordered Sisar built, which he and Salam al-Tayfuri fortified.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Sulayman ibn Qayrat, a client of al-Mahdi, and holder of the Qayrat desert in the City of Peace (Baghdad) 1.

Sisar

al-Baladhuri reports that he was in charge of al-Mahdi's pastures of beasts and sheep at Sisar. He wrote to al-Mahdi about the report of the vagrants, and al-Mahdi ordered him to build the city of Sisar. He built it with his partner Salam al-Tayfuri, and they fortified it 1.

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Participated in
The Building of Sisar

People and things also explored

Muhammad al-Mahdi· Harun al-Rashid· Murra ibn Ali al-Rudhayni· Salam al-Tayfuri· Sisar· The Building of Sisar

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Muhammad al-Mahdi

Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, third Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: he sent his son Harun raiding Byzantine lands in year 163, besieging Damalu — its people by some reports settled at Baghdad on his ruling, spared and named for their town — and he completed what remained of the march-cities' and fortresses' works after his father al-Mansur, adding to their garrisons, ordered al-Hadath built and bequeathed the building of Tarsus on al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba's description; in his caliphate a body of Qinnasrin's hadir converted and he had the khadra written at their hands.