Abu al-Muhajir Dinar
Abu al-Muhajir Dinar أبو المهاجر دينار | |
|---|---|
Muawiyah I Yazid I | |
| Preceded by | Uqba ibn Nafi |
| Succeeded by | Uqba ibn Nafi |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 683 Tabuda, Algeria |
| Religion | Islam |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Umayyad Caliphate |
| Battles/wars | Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
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Abu al-Muhajir Dinar (
Biography
His biography is complicated by the existence of two versions of the history of the
He may have been of
In 675,
Uqba had established a camp at
What Abu al-Muhajir accomplished in the nine or so years of his command are not agreed by the two different versions of the histories. Histories written in the 9th century credit him with advancing no further west than
Muawiyah's successor as Caliph, Yazid I, was responsible for restoring Uqba to his previous position.[10] Uqba arrived in Ifriqiya in 682, and immediately fulfilled his vow. Abu al-Muhajir was shackled and forced to accompany Uqba whenever he went on expeditions.[citation needed]
In 683,
He is buried in Sidi Okba in Algeria in the al-Shurafa cemetery with 300 dead of the Battle of Vescera in front of the mosque of Sidi Okba or what is the tomb of General Uqba ibn Nafi.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ See Benabbès (2005), Modéran (2005).
- ^ See https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abu-al-Muhajir-Dinar-al-Ansari
- ^ موجز عن الفتوحات الإسلامية | مجلد 1 | صفحة 68 | ثالثا: فتوح المغرب والأندلس وبلاد غالة "جنوب فرنسا" (in Arabic).
- ISBN 9780306817281.
- ^ Ibn Abd al-Hakam, p. 197 of Torrey's Arabic text, but on p. 320 of the English translation the date given is 10 years earlier. This is because the translation is based on a single manuscript. The earlier date is not supported by better manuscripts.
- ^ Ibn Abd al-Hakam, p. 197 of Torrey's Arabic text, p. 321 of English translation.
- Qayrawancalled Draa Temmar.
- Arabic: تيكروان) from Ibn Abi Dinarin the 16th century.
- Khalifa ibn Khayyat, Tarikh, fide Benabbès (2005), Modéran (2005).
- ^ Ibn Abd al-Hakam, p. 198 of Torrey's Arabic text, p. 322 of English translation.
- ^ Ibn Abd al-Hakam, p. 199 of Torrey's Arabic text, p. 324 of English translation.
- ^ Ibn Abd al-Hakam, p. 199 of Torrey's Arabic text, p. 323 of English translation.
Bibliography
- Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Kitab Futuh Misr wa'l Maghrib wa'l Andalus. The only substantial English translation of this 9th century work is that of Torrey(who also later edited the critical Arabic edition, Yale University Press, 1932): "The Muhammedan Conquest of Egypt and North Africa in the Years 643-705 A.D., translated from the Original Arabic of Ibn 'Abd-el Hakem'", Biblical and Semitic Studies vol. 1 (1901), 279–330.
- Abu Zaid Abd ur-Rahman bin Muhammad ad-Dabbagh (13th century, updated by Abu al-Fadl Abu al-Qasim ibn Naji in the 15th century), Ma'alim al-Aman fi Ma'arufat Ahl al-Qayrawan. Critical Arabic edition by Ibrahim Shubbuh, Makataba al-Khananaji, Cairo, 1968.
- A. Benabbès: "Les premiers raids arabes en Numidie byzantine: questions toponymiques." In Identités et Cultures dans l'Algérie Antique, University of Rouen, 2005 (ISBN 2-87775-391-3)
- ISBN 2-87775-391-3).
- Marcel Solignac: Recherches sur les Installations Hydrauliques de Kairouan et des Steppes Tunisiennes du VIIe au XIe Siècle (J.C.), Institut d'Études Orientales de la Faculté des Lettres d'Alger, 1953. (Not just on hydraulics, contains valuable historical research).