Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali
Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali مسلمة بن يحيى البجلي | |
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| Abbasid Governor of Egypt | |
| In office February 789 – December 789 | |
| Monarch | Harun al-Rashid |
| Preceded by | Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad ibn Zuhayr al-Azdi |
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| Died | Abbasid Caliphate |
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Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali (Arabic: مسلمة بن يحيى البجلي) was a Khurasani Arab general and governor of the Abbasid Caliphate.
He was the brother of Jibril ibn Yahya al-Bajali, who had probably participated in the Abbasid Revolution and hence belonged to the khurasaniyya, the new regime's main power-base. Maslama served with Salih ibn Ali in Syria against the Byzantines, and in 789 as governor of Egypt for Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
Sources
[edit]- Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 179. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
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