The Killing of Kulthum ibn Iyad in Ifriqiya

قتل كلثوم بن عياض بإفريقية

between 724 and 743 CE

Ifriqiya

In al-Baladhuri on Ibn al-Kalbi's report: Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik gave Kulthum ibn Iyad ibn Wahwah al-Qushayri Ifriqiya, whose people rose against him so that he was killed there.

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The Umayyad Period
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Maghreb
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Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qushayri· هشام بن عبد الملك
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier· al-Junayd's Khurasan and the Turkish War· al-Mubarak Canal and the Tigris Pontoon· The First Raid on Ifriqiya and the Killing of Its Patrikios· The Founding of Qayrawan· The Building of al-Rafiqa· Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina· Harun's Appointment of Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab over the Maghreb

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier

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