al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami

الجرّاح بن عبد الله الحكمي

al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami of Mudhhij; in al-Baladhuri: governing Armenia he settled at Bardha'a, where its conflicting measures and weights were laid before him and he set them on justice and fulness, making a measure called al-Jarrahi its people deal by to this day; he executed Habib ibn Maslama's aman and treaty for Tiflis's people with a writ fixing a hundred dirhams yearly on their mills and vineyards; then he crossed the Kurr, passed the river al-Samur, reached the Khazars and killed them in a great slaughter, and fought the people of Bilad Hamzin compounding to transfer them to a rustaq.

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The Umayyad Period
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Levant & Iraq
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Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah's Governorship of Armenia· The Treaty with the People of Tiflis· The Death of al-Jarrah at Ardabil

People and things also explored

The Khazars· Adi ibn Adi ibn Amira al-Kindi· Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri· سليمان بن عبد الملك· عمر بن عبد العزيز· Ardabil· Armenia· Bardha'a (Partaw)

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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The Khazars

The Khazars in al-Baladhuri are the people beyond the Caucasus whose great king bears the title Khaqan; Salman ibn Rabi'a warred on them until slain at Balanjar, and they surged across the Rass in al-Jarrah's day until he met and fell fighting them near Ardabil; when their great king learned the numbers Marwan ibn Muhammad trod into his lands it filled him with dread, and he sent summoning him to Islam or war — Marwan answering 'I accept Islam', whereupon the Khaqan showed forth Islam, Marwan compounding with him confirming his kingdom, and settled a body of them between al-Samur and al-Shabiran in the Lakz plain; and Yazid ibn Asid married into their king's house at al-Mansur's command, the Khaqan's daughter bearing him a son who died while she died in her lying-in.