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Sisar

سيسر

the Jibal city between Hamadhan, al-Dinawar and Adharbayjan; in al-Baladhuri built by Sulayman ibn Qayrat and Salam al-Tayfuri at al-Mahdi's command to shelter his herds from brigands — 'thirty heads and a hundred springs' — made a kura, garrisoned by al-Rashid's thousand, and reverted to caliphal estates under al-Ma'mun.

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The Rashidun Caliphate · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Building of Sisar

People and things also explored

Muhammad al-Mahdi· Harun al-Rashid· Murra ibn Ali al-Rudhayni· Salam al-Tayfuri· Sulayman ibn Qayrat· The Building of Sisar

Sources

  • 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.