Maslama Ibn Yahya Al-Bajali
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Maslama ibn Yahya al-Bajali () was a Khurasani Arab general and governor of the
Abbasid Caliphate The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (; ) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 CE), from whom the dynasty takes ...
. He was the brother of Jibril ibn Yahya al-Bajali, who likely participated in the Abbasid Revolution and hence belonged to the ''khurasaniyya'', the new regime's main power-base. Maslama served with Salih ibn Ali in Syria against the Byzantines, and in 789 as governor of
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for Caliph
Harun al-Rashid Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rāshīd (), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Hārūn al-Rāshīd (), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 unti ...
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* 8th-century births 8th-century Abbasid governors of Egypt Generals of the Abbasid Caliphate Abbasid people of the Arab–Byzantine wars Year of death unknown 8th-century Arab people {{Egypt-bio-stub