Sa'id ibn Hamdan
Sa'id ibn Hamdan (
Arabic: ابو علاء سعيد بن حمدان, romanized: Abu ʿAlāʾ Saʿīd ibn Ḥamdān) was an early member of the Hamdanid dynasty who served as provincial governor and military leader under the Abbasid Caliphate. He was the father of the celebrated poet Abu Firas al-Hamdani
.
Biography
Sa'id was a son of the
Along with his brother Abu'l-Sarja Nasr, Sa'id vied with his nephew Hasan, the future
Samosata, before moving onto Melitene. The local Byzantine garrison, composed of followers of the Armenian general Melias, panicked and massacred many of the inhabitants for fear of an uprising against them; they then destroyed as much of the city as they could and abandoned it. Sa'id took over control of the city, appointed one of his lieutenants as governor, and returned to Mosul. From there he launched a raid into Byzantine territory in November.[5] Hasan regained Mosul in 934, but again Sa'id's intrigues at court caused him to lose it. As a result, Hasan had his uncle assassinated and fled to Armenia, whence he returned in late 935 to become once more Mosul's governor. Consolidating his position, Hasan founded the practically independent Hamdanid emirate of Mosul, and ruled it until 967.[4]
Through a
umm walad, freed after giving birth to her master's child), Sa'id was the father of the distinguished general and poet Abu Firas al-Hamdani.[6][7] Another son, Husayn, served as a general under Nasir al-Dawla and Sayf al-Dawla,[8] while his daughter Shakinah became the wife of Sayf al-Dawla and the mother of his successor, Sa'd al-Dawla.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d Canard 1971, p. 126.
- ^ Kennedy 2004, pp. 265–266.
- ^ Kennedy 2004, pp. 266–267.
- ^ a b Canard 1971, p. 127.
- ^ PmbZ, Saʻīd b. Ḥamdān (#26961).
- ^ Gibb 1960, pp. 119–120.
- ^ El Tayib 1990, pp. 315–316.
- ^ Canard 1971, pp. 127, 129.
- ^ Canard 1971, p. 129.
Sources
- OCLC 495469525.
- 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.
- OCLC 495469456.
- ISBN 978-0-582-40525-7.
- 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.