Muhallabids
Muhallabid dynasty المهلبيون | |
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Parent family | Azd[1] |
Country | Umayyad Caliphate and Abbasid Caliphate |
Place of origin | Dibba, Arabia[2] |
Founded | 698 |
Founder | Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra |
Deposition | 812 |
Historical Arab states and dynasties |
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The Muhallabids (
Arabic: المهلبيون) or the Muhallabid dynasty were an Arab family who became prominent in the middle Umayyad Caliphate and reached its greatest eminence during the early Abbasids, when members of the family ruled Basra and Ifriqiya
.
The founders of the family's fortunes were
Ahwaz, but most prominently in Ifriqiya, where the family ruled in uninterrupted succession from 768 to 795. Ifriqiya under their rule enjoyed a period of prosperity, above all agriculture was reinvigorated by the expansion of irrigation systems. The Muhallabids of Ifriqiya enjoyed a great deal of autonomy and were able to maintain Arab rule in the face of revolts by the Berbers. They were unable however to prevent the formation of the kingdoms of the Arab Idrisids in Morocco and the Persian Rustamids in central Algeria
.
The family fell from power during and after the
Buyid emir Mu'izz al-Dawla
.
Sources
- ISBN 978-90-04-09419-2.
- OCLC 752790641.
External links
- Media related to Muhallabids at Wikimedia Commons