Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, the former governor of…

720 CE

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, the former governor of Iraq, leads a rebellion against Caliph Umar in 719-720.

Defeated by the Caliph's forces under Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid and Maslamaibn Abd al-Malik, Al-Muhallab is killed at Basra, the center of his revolt.

Basra remains a focus of the political strife that has arisen between the competing religious factions in Islam, a political friction intensified by a volatile social situation.

Whereas the Arab army constitutes an aristocracy in Basra, the local and various migrant peoples who have settled there (Indians, Persians, Africans, Malays) are merely mawali, or clients attached to Arab tribes.

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Basra > Al-Basrah Al-Basrah Iraq View →

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Al-‘Abbas ibn al-Walīd View → Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik View → Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz View → Yazid II View → Yazid ibn al-Muhallab View →

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Malaysian Malays View → Persian people View → Islam View → Muslims, Sunni View → Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus) View → Muslims, Shi'a View →

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