Ibn Hubayra
Ibn Hubayra () may refer to: * Umar ibn Hubayra (fl. 710s–720s), Umayyad general and governor of Iraq * Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra (died 750), Umayyad general and governor of Iraq, son of the above * Awn ad-Din ibn Hubayra Awn al-Din Abu'l-Muzzafar Yahya ibn Hubayra al-Shaybani al-Duri al-Baghdadi (; 1105-1165), commonly referred to as Ibn Hubayra, was a 12th-century Iraqi Arab official and a Hanbali faqih, jurist, who served for sixteen years as Vizier (Abbasid Cal ...

Umar Ibn Hubayra
Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari (; ) was a prominent Umayyad general and governor of Iraq, who played an important role in the Qays–Yaman conflict of this period. Origin and early career A Qaysi from the Jazira, Umar claimed to belong to the traditional Arab nobility by virtue of his maternal grandfather, who was supposedly chief of the Banu Uday branch of the Fazara tribe. However, the family is unknown from the sources until the emergence of Umar himself in 696, when he served in Iraq under Sufyan ibn al-Abrad al-Kalbi. Umar participated in the campaigns against the Byzantine Empire in the 710s, and under the command of Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, commanded the Muslim fleet in 715/716, during the initial stages of the unsuccessful campaign to capture the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. In the next year, Maslama sent him as envoy to the Byzantine emperor, Leo III the Isaurian. Governorship of the Jazira and of Iraq Despite the failure of the campaign, he was appointed govern ...
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Yazid Ibn Umar Ibn Hubayra
Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari (; died 750) was the last Umayyad governor of Iraq. A son of former governor Umar ibn Hubayra, he became one of the most important partisans of Caliph Marwan II in the Third Fitna, but failed to stem the onslaught of the Abbasid Revolution. Defeated, he was captured and executed by the Abbasids after the Siege of Wasit. Origin Like his father, Umar ibn Hubayra, Yazid was a Qaysi from the Jazira, and claimed to belong to the traditional Arab nobility although the family is unknown from the sources until Umar himself. Both father and son are often simply called "Ibn Hubayra" in the sources. His prestige was such that not only did Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik () propose a marriage between Yazid and his granddaughter, the daughter of Hisham's favourite son, Mu'awiya, but Yazid felt able to reject the offer. In historical sources, Yazid is praised for his valour and military skill, but also for being a generous patron of poets and religious ...
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