Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik

Umayyad prince and general

675 CE to 738 CE

Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (fl.

705–738) is an Umayyad prince and one of the most prominent Arab generals of the early decades of the 8th century, leading several campaigns against the Byzantine Empire and the Khazar Khaganate.

He achieves great fame especially for leading the second and last Arab siege of the Byzantine capital Constantinople, and for strengthening the Muslim presence in the Caucasus, among other things as the "founder of Islamic Derbent".

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