Al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAmr al-Ghanawī (d. 305/917), a military commander and provincial governor in the late 3rd/9th century, during the ʿAbbāsid era. Nothing is known of his life prior to 286/899, when he was governor of Fārs. In that year, as the missionary activity (daʿwa) of Abū Saʿīd al-Jannābī (q.v.) in Bahrain was intensifying, and the Qarmaṭīs were mounting attacks against the regions of Hajar, advancing as far as the vicinity of Baṣra, the caliph al-Muʿtaḍid appointed al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAmr as governor of Yamāma and Bahrain, and charged him w…