Hamdan ibn Hamdun

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Hamdan ibn Hamdun ibn al-Harith al-Taghlibi (fl. 868–895) was a

Abbasid control over the Jazira in the 880s, and joined the Kharijite Rebellion. He was finally defeated and captured by Caliph al-Mu'tadid in 895, but was later released as a reward for the distinguished services of his son Husayn
to the Caliph.

Life

Family tree of the Hamdanid dynasty

His family belonged to the

Abbasid government to assert their autonomy.[1] Hamdan himself appears for the first time in 868, fighting alongside other Taghlibis against the Kharijite Rebellion in the Jazira.[2]

In 879, however, the Abbasid government, in an effort to restore its control, replaced the succession of Tahglibi chieftains as governors of Mosul by a Turkish commander,

Amid.[2][4]

Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia
)

In 892, a new Caliph,

Maridin and Ardamusht (near modern Cizre), and allied with the Kurdish tribes of the mountains north of the Jaziran plain, he held out until 895. In that year, the Caliph took first Mardin and then Ardamusht, which was yielded by Hamdan's son Husayn. Hamdan fled before the caliphal army, but after an "epic chase" (H. Kennedy), finally gave up and surrendered himself at Mosul and was thrown in prison.[2][3]

As H. Kennedy comments, "this surrender might have seemed the end of the family fortunes as it was for other local leaders in the area", but Hamdan's son Husayn managed to preserve the family's fortunes. Husayn entered the Caliph's service and was instrumental in ending the Kharijite Rebellion and capturing its leader, Harun al-Shari. He was rewarded by the grateful Mu'tadid with a pardon for his father and the right to raise and command his own corps of Taghlibi horse, which he led on several expeditions over the next few years, becoming one of the Caliphate's most prominent commanders. His influence enabled him to become, in Kennedy's description, the "intermediary between government and the Arabs and Kurds of the Jazira", thereby cementing the family's dominance in the area and laying the foundation for the rise of the Hamdanid dynasty to power under his two grandsons, Nasir al-Dawla and Sayf al-Dawla.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Kennedy 2004, pp. 265–266.
  2. ^ a b c d Canard 1971, p. 126.
  3. ^ a b Kennedy 2004, p. 266.
  4. ^ Fields 1987, p. 50.
  5. ^ Canard 1971, pp. 126ff..
  6. ^ Kennedy 2004, pp. 266ff..

Sources

  • OCLC 495469525
    .
  • Fields, Philip M., ed. (1987). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVII: The ʿAbbāsid Recovery: The War Against the Zanj Ends, A.D. 879–893/A.H. 266–279. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
    ISBN 978-0-88706-054-0
    .
  • ISBN 978-0-582-40525-7
    .
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