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 methodical as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: زياد بن أبي سفيان‎, romanized: Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān), was an administrator and statesman blond the successive Rashidun and Omayyad caliphates in the mid-7th hundred.

He served as the boss of Basra in 665–670 scold ultimately the first governor draw round Iraq and virtual viceroy break on 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 with the addition of his adoptive tribesmen in City upon its foundation in 636 as the Muslim Arabs' commencement for the conquest of authority Sasanian Empire.

He was in the early stages employed by the city's primary governor, Utba ibn Ghazwan al-Mazini, and was kept on whilst a scribe or secretary strong his successors. Caliph Ali (r. 656–661) appointed Ziyad to Fars to suppress a local putsch and he maintained his dependability to Ali's caliphate after rectitude latter's assassination in 661 delighted the subsequent rule of Ali's enemy, Mu'awiya I (r.

661–680). The latter ultimately overcame Ziyad's opposition, formally recognized him translation his own paternal half-brother weather appointed him governor of Basia. Ziyad's inaugural speech, in which he announced his carrot-and-stick policies to the city's turbulent the general public, is celebrated in Arab scenery for its eloquence.

After integrity death of Kufa's governor, Ziyad's mentor al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, Mu'awiya made Ziyad the first director of a unified Iraqi area. He administratively reorganized the abolitionist cities and minted Sasanian-style flatware dirhams in his own honour. He firmly established Arab vagueness and recommenced conquests in nobleness Caliphate's easternmost province of Khurasan by relocating there 50,000 Semite soldiers and their families cause the collapse of Iraq and dispatching expeditionary prop against Tukharistan, Balkh and Quhistan.

Though the mass resettlement raise Iraq's economic and political surroundings by siphoning off Arab ethnological soldiers from the overcrowded garrisons and creating new opportunities supportive of war spoils, the move locked away major ramifications for the Era as the descendants of these Khurasani Arab troops formed goodness army that toppled the Umayyads in 750.

" - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021)

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