Qarghuyah
Qarghuyah or Qarquya was an important
On January 7, 965, Qarghuyah was appointed governor of Aleppo by Sayf al-Dawla, who had by that point retreated to Martyropolis, moving against an advancing Byzantine army led by Nikephoros II Phokas.[1][2]
On October 29, 965, a rebel force led by the former secretary of Tarsus, Rashiq al-Nasimi, approached Aleppo while Sayf al-dawla was away from the city.[3] After three months, he managed to capture a lower part of the town, but was killed in an attack on the citadel on January 8, 966.[3][2][4][5] Sayf al-Dawla died on 8 February of 967 in Aleppo.[1] He was succeeded by his son, Sa'd al-Dawla, who reached Aleppo on June/July 967.
Around April 968, the same month the rebellion of
In 975, Bakjur deposed and imprisoned Qarghuyah and seized control of the emirate himself.[2] Two years later, Sa'd al-Dawla returned to Aleppo after defeating Bakjur, whom he exiled to Homs, and restored Qarghuyah to his previous post as deputy.[2] He died around April in 990 in Aleppo. [2][8]
References
- ^ a b PmbZ, Sayfaddawla Abū l-Ḥasan 'Alī b. 'Abdallāh b. Hamdan (#26998).
- ^ a b c d e f g h PmbZ, Qarġūyah (#26785).
- ^ a b PmbZ, Rašīq an-Nasīmī (#26804).
- ^ Canard 1971, p. 129.
- ^ El Tayib 1990, p. 326.
- ^ a b c Kaldellis 2017, p. 74.
- ^ a b PmbZ, Petros (#26496).
- ^ PmbZ, Sa'daddawla Abū l-Ma'ālī (#26954).
Sources
- Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (2013). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nach Vorarbeiten F. Winkelmanns erstellt (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
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- El Tayib, Abdullah (1990). "Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī". In Ashtiany, Julia; Johnstone, T. M.; Latham, J. D.; Serjeant, R. B.; Smith, G. Rex (eds.). ʿAbbasid Belles-Lettres. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 315–327. ISBN 0-521-24016-6.
- Kaldellis, Anthony (2017). Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190253226.