Overview: Naṣr ibn Sayyār al-Lāythi al-Kināni (Arabic: نصر بن سيار الليثي الكناني‎; 663–748) was an Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738–748. Nasr played a distinguished role in the ...

Overview: Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi (Arabic: موسى بن كعب التميمي‎) was an 8th-century Arab commander during the Abbasid Revolution and then provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate.

Overview: Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ali (Arabic: عبد الله بن علي‎; c.– 764 CE) was a member of the Banu Abbas, who played a leading role in its rise to power during the Abbasid Revolution. As governor of Syria ...

Overview: Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i (Arabic: الحَسَن بن قَحْطَبَة بن شبيب الطائي‎) was a senior military leader in the early Abbasid Caliphate.

Overview: Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari (Arabic: يَزِيد بن عُمَر بن هُبَيْرَة الْفَزارِيّ‎, Yazīd ibn ʿUmar ibn Hubayra al-Fazārī; died 750) was the last Umayyad governor of Iraq. A son of former g ...

Overview: Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (Persian: ابومسلم عبدالرحمان بن مسلم خراسانی‎) or Behzādān Pour Vandād Hormozd (بهزادان پور ونداد هرمزد) born 718/19 or 723/27, died in 755), was ...

Overview: Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i (Arabic: قحطبة بن شبيب الطائي‎) (died 27 August 749) was a follower of the Abbasids from Khurasan who played a leading role in the Abbasid Revolution against the Umayyad ...

Overview: Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam (Arabic: مروان بن محمد بن مروان بن الحكم‎, Marwān ibn Muḥammad ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam; 691 – 6 August 750), also called Marwan II, was the fourteenth ...

Overview: Mu'adh ibn Muslim ibn Mu'adh (Arabic: معاذ بن مسلم بن معاذ‎) was a general and governor for the Abbasid Caliphate.