الحجاج بن هرمزقنة أبو جعفر القائد

الحجاج بن هرمزقنة أبو جعفر القائد

c. October 1009 CE · Rabi' I 400 AH

al-Ahwaz

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli

Summary

Al-Hajjaj b. Hurmuzqana, Abu Ja'far the commander; Baha' al-Dawla's deputy over Iraq, tasked with war on the Arabs and Kurds, a leading figure in 'Adud al-Dawla's days and his sons' — versed in war, valiant, of great majesty and sound judgement. 1

Death

When he left Baghdad in Ramadan of the year *92, sedition broke out there and security scattered; he died at al-Ahwaz in Rabi' I 400, aged a hundred and five. 1

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People and things also explored

The sack of al-Ahwaz, 421· Conquest of al-Ahwaz, Manadhir and Nahr Tiri (16 AH)· The Zanj Enter Ahwaz· Abu Ghalib the vizier· al-Hasan ibn Makula· al-Ahwaz

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.248
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The sack of al-Ahwaz, 421

Jalal al-Dawla entered al-Ahwaz and let his troops loose in it for sixteen days. His letter reached Baghdad on 11 Rabi' II 421 describing what had been taken: the letter claimed that the booty exceeded five million dinars and that two thousand slave-girls were taken captive, along with what the victorious king's own account gives of himself and of their number.