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Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi

زهير بن قيس البلوي

Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi; Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan gave him Ifriqiya — he opened Tutus, then turned back to Barqa where word came of Romans landed from ships and ravaging; he rode out with a light cavalry band, met them, and was martyred with those with him, buried where their graves are called Qubur al-Shuhada.

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The Umayyad Period
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The Martyrdom of Zuhayr ibn Qays at Barqa

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Barqa (Cyrenaica)· Tutus· The Martyrdom of Zuhayr ibn Qays at Barqa

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Barqa (Cyrenaica)

Barqa (Cyrenaica), the nearer Maghreb between Egypt and Ifriqiya, its city Antabulus; Amr ibn al-As compounded with it after Alexandria's fall for a thirteen-thousand-dinar jizya in which they might sell whom they wished of their children; its people sent their kharaj to Egypt's governor unpressed — the most prosperous folk of the Maghreb, untouched by fitna — and among it the covenant-holding Berber village of Lawata, and Zawila whence Uqba ibn Nafi's first charge began.