Isa ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas

عيسى بن علي بن عبد الله بن العباس

Isa ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas; in al-Baladhuri from al-Waqidi: he was at Mar'ash — having led that year's raid — when Michael came out of the Darb al-Hadath with eighty thousand in year 161 and reached the city gate; Isa's mawalis, the townsfolk and their fighters went out, shot him with arrows, pursued when he feigned flight, then he turned on them and killed eight of Isa's mawalis before besieging the shut city and withdrawing to Jayhan.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Michael's Incursion on the Mar'ash Depths, 161

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Muhammad al-Mahdi· al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba· Mar'ash (Germanikeia)· Michael's Incursion on the Mar'ash Depths, 161

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Muhammad al-Mahdi

Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, third Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: he sent his son Harun raiding Byzantine lands in year 163, besieging Damalu — its people by some reports settled at Baghdad on his ruling, spared and named for their town — and he completed what remained of the march-cities' and fortresses' works after his father al-Mansur, adding to their garrisons, ordered al-Hadath built and bequeathed the building of Tarsus on al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba's description; in his caliphate a body of Qinnasrin's hadir converted and he had the khadra written at their hands.