Ibn al-Ikhshad

Ibn al-Ikhshad or Ibn al-Ikhshid was the governor of Tarsus for the Abbasid Caliphate from April 898 until his death in battle against the Byzantines in early 900.

The name Ibn al-Ikhshad or Ibn al-Ikhshid derives from the Persian title ikhshid.[1] From 890 until 897, the city of Tarsus and the borderlands (thughur) with the Byzantine Empire were controlled by the autonomous Tulunid dynasty of Egypt, but in 897 a pro-Abbasid party under Raghib took power in the city and arrested the Tulunid governor Damian and other pro-Tulunid officials. Envoys were then sent to the Abbasid capital Baghdad to ask for the appointment of a new governor.[2][3] This was done, as Caliph al-Mu'tadid appointed Ibn al-Ikhshad as governor (amir), the latter leaving Baghdad to take up his post on 17 April 898 along with the Tarsiote envoys.[4]

In the same winter (December 898/January 899) he undertook a raid against the Byzantines, reaching the fortress of Salandu (Traianopolis), which he captured, returning to Tarsus in early 899.[4][5] Following the arrest of Raghib at ar-Raqqa in August 899, Ibn al-Ikhshad arrested his servants and confiscated his possessions in Tarsus.[6] Ibn al-Ikhshad was killed in another expedition into Byzantine territory shortly after, probably in early 900, leaving Abu Thabit as his deputy and successor behind him.[5][7]

References

  1. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, p. 71 (note 368).
  2. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, pp. 41, 44.
  3. ↑ Stern 1960, p. 220.
  4. 1 2 Rosenthal 1985, p. 71.
  5. 1 2 PmbZ, Ibn al-Iḫšād (#22696).
  6. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, p. 79.
  7. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, p. 83.

Sources

Vacant
Interregnum after end of Tulunid control
Title last held by
Damian of Tarsus		 Governor of Tarsus
April 898 – early 900 		Succeeded by
Abu Thabit
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