Abdallah ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ( ar, عبد الله بن إسحاق بن إبراهيم) was a Mus'abid official in the service of the

Abbasid Caliphate The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib ...

. He was briefly the governor of

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

in 851, and the governor of Fars in c. 863.

Career

Abdallah was a member of the Mus'abid family, a collateral branch of the

Tahirid dynasty The Tahirid dynasty ( fa, طاهریان, Tâheriyân, ) was a culturally Arabized Sunni Muslim dynasty of Persian dehqan origin, that ruled as governors of Khorasan from 821 to 873 as well as serving as military and security commanders in A ...

. Following the death of

Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ( ar, محمد بن إسحاق بن إبراهيم, died June 851) was a Mus'abid chief of security of Baghdad for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 850 until his death. Career Muhammad was the son of Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ...

in July 851, 'Abdallah succeeded him as governor of Baghdad and chief of security (''

shurta ''Shurṭa'' ( ar, شرطة) is the common Arabic term for police, although its precise meaning is that of a "picked" or elite force. Bodies termed ''shurṭa'' were established in the early days of the Caliphate, perhaps as early as the caliphate ...

h'') of the

Sawad Sawad was the name used in early Islamic times (7th–12th centuries) for southern Iraq. It means "black land" or "arable land" and refers to the stark contrast between the alluvial plain of Mesopotamia and the Arabian Desert. Under the Umayyad ...

, but he quickly alienated his taxation officials by dealing with them in a harsh manner. In that same year he lost his position to

Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir Abu'l-Abbas Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir () (824/5 – November 867) was a Tahirid who served the Abbasid Caliphate as governor and chief of police ('' sahib al-shurta'') of Baghdad from 851 until his death, during a particularly troubled peri ...

, who arrived in October from Khurasan. In ca. 863 Abdallah was appointed by Muhammad to act as his governor of Fars. While serving in that province, he withheld the pay of the local soldiers, which provoked them into rebelling against him and transferring their allegiance to 'Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Quraysh. Lacking the means to counter the revolt, Abdallah was forced to abandon Fars and return to Baghdad.; . The date of 863 comes from al-Ya'qubi; al-Tabari's account of this event takes place in the year 864.

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* * {{Iran-politician-stub Tahirid governors of Baghdad 9th-century Iranian people 9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate Abbasid governors of Fars