Al-‘Abbas ibn al-Walīd

Umayyad Arab prince and general

685 CE to 750 CE

Al-‘Abbas ibn al-Walīd is an Umayyad Arab prince and general, the son of Caliph al-Walid I.

A distinguished military leader in the Byzantine–Arab Wars of the early 8th century, especially in partnership with his uncle Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, he becomes involved in the civil wars of the mid-740s and is imprisoned.

He dies in prison of an epidemic in 750.

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