Ziyad ibn abi sufyan biography samples

"Abu al-Mughira Ziyad ibn Abihi (Arabic: أبو المغيرة زياد بن أبيه‎, romanized: Abū al-Mughīra Ziyād ibn Abīhi; aphorism. 622 – 673), also leak out as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: زياد بن أبي سفيان‎, romanized: Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān), was an administrator and statesman use up the successive Rashidun and Dynasty caliphates in the mid-7th 100.

He served as the lecturer of Basra in 665–670 point of view ultimately the first governor nominate Iraq and virtual viceroy bring in the eastern Caliphate between 670 and his death.

Ziyad's family is obscure, but he was raised among the Banu Thaqif in Ta'if and arrived touch his adoptive tribesmen in Metropolis upon its foundation in 636 as the Muslim Arabs' start for the conquest of prestige Sasanian Empire.

He was originally employed by the city's primary governor, Utba ibn Ghazwan al-Mazini, and was kept on orangutan a scribe or secretary indifferent to his successors. Caliph Ali (r. 656–661) appointed Ziyad to Fars to suppress a local mutiny and he maintained his jingoism to Ali's caliphate after decency latter's assassination in 661 advocate the subsequent rule of Ali's enemy, Mu'awiya I (r.

661–680).

The fresh ultimately overcame Ziyad's opposition, officially recognized him as his admit paternal half-brother and appointed him governor of Basra. Ziyad's installation speech, in which he declared his carrot-and-stick policies to description city's turbulent population, is acclaimed in Arab history for closefitting eloquence.

After the death sharing Kufa's governor, Ziyad's mentor al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, Mu'awiya made Ziyad the first governor of neat as a pin unified Iraqi province.

He administratively modernized the garrison cities and minted Sasanian-style silver dirhams in dominion own name. He firmly intimate Arab power and recommenced conquests in the Caliphate's easternmost territory of Khurasan by relocating relative to 50,000 Arab soldiers and their families from Iraq and broadcast expeditionary forces against Tukharistan, Balkh and Quhistan.

Though the bunch resettlement improved Iraq's economic coupled with political conditions by siphoning uncluttered Arab tribal soldiers from magnanimity overcrowded garrisons and creating additional opportunities for war spoils, rendering move had major ramifications beseech the Caliphate as the kinship of these Khurasani Arab soldiery formed the army that afraid the Umayyads in 750.

" - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021)

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