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b. al-Ḥakam b. Yūsuf al-Balk̲h̲ī , governor and financial controller of Egypt from 1 Ramaḍān 200/3 April 816. On 1 Rabīʿ I 201/27 Sept. 816, the troops openly mutinied against him, and al-Maʾmūn was forced to remove al-Sarī from his post and replace him by Sulaymān b. G̲h̲ālib; al-Sarī was put in prison and Sulaymān entered upon his office on Tuesday, 4 Rabīʿ I 201/30 Sept. 816. He was removed from office as early as 1 S̲h̲aʿbān 201/22 Feb. 817, as the result of a repeated revol…

b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-ʿAbbās , member of the ʿAbbāsid family (92-152/711-69) who played an important part in the success of the ʿAbbāsid revolution in Syria, assisting his brother ʿAbd Allāh in the assault on Damascus and, with Abū ʿAwn ʿAbd al-Malik b. Yazīd al-ʿAtakī leading the pursuit of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwān b. Muḥammad to Egypt. He was appointed governor of Egypt on 1 Muḥarram, 133/9 August 750 and remained there for a year, establishing ʿAbbāsid power. On 1 S̲h̲aʿbān 1, 133/4 March 751 he was moved to Palestine and in the same year sent Saʿīd b. ʿAbd Allāh to lead the first ṣāʾifa [ q.…

[English edition] اليمن هو الجزء الجنوبيّ الغربيّ من شبه الجزيرة العربيّة، وهو ما يقع القسم الأعظم منه الآن في جمهوريّة اليمن (الّتي تضمّ كذلك في الجزء الشّرقيّ منها ما كان يسمّى جمهوريّة اليمن الجنوبيّة الدّيمقراطيّة الشّعبيّة، وهي محميّة عدن قبل 1967، وحضرموت التّاريخيّة بالأساس [انظر حضرموت] من المجلّد 3 من دائرة المعارف الإسلاميّة وكذلك في الملحق، [وانظر كذلك سُقُترا suḳuṭra]. 1. تعريف ومدخل عامّ تفسَّر التّسمية في المصادر العربيّة القديمة بوجوه مختلفة؛ يقول بعضهم إنّ ذلك الاسم أُطلِق على تلك المنطقة لأنّ اليمن يقع إلى يمين الكعبة أوإلى يمين الشّمس (البك…