Sulayman ibn Ghalib ibn Jibril al-Bajali (Arabic: سليمان بن غالب بن جبريل البجلي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 816 to 817.

Career

Sulayman was a grandson of Jibril ibn Yahya al-Bajali, a Khurasani who had likely participated in the Abbasid Revolution.[1] He was appointed to the head of the Egyptian shurta in 809 and 811 before being propelled to the governorship on the back of a troop mutiny which resulted in the deposition of al-Sari ibn al-Hakam in September 816. He did not remain in office for long before the troops turned on him as well, and he was forced aside in February 817 after a tenure of five months, while al-Sari was returned to power.[2][3][4][5]

Sulayman's son Muhammad later acted as a head of the shurta in 851.[6][7][5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Crone 1980, pp. 179–80.
  2. ↑ Grohmann 1997, p. 55.
  3. ↑ Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 146, 148, 165–67.
  4. ↑ Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 141, 168–69.
  5. 1 2 Crone 1980, p. 180.
  6. ↑ Al-Kindi 1912, p. 199.
  7. ↑ Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 288.

References

  • Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
  • Grohmann, A. (1997). "al-Sarī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume IX: San–Sze (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 55. ISBN 978-90-04-10422-8.
  • Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
  • Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
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