Al-Hasan ibn Ali Kurah

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī Kūrah was a military leader of the Abbasid Caliphate under Caliph al-Mu'tadid.

Al-Hasan ibn Ali Kurah first appears in 894/5, during the course of the reimposition of Abbasid authority over the Jibal and Rayy by al-Mu'tadid. According to al-Tabari, he was the agent of the renegade general Rafi ibn Harthama in Rayy, and surrendered to al-Mu'tadid's son Ali (the future al-Muktafi) with a thousand men.[1] In 896, al-Mu'tadid sent him as leader of an expedition against the Kharijite rebels in the Jazira, but he failed to achieve any decisive result.[2]

Sometime in the year 900, he was appointed as governor of the Cilician border zone (ath-thughur ash-Shamiya) with the Byzantine Empire.[3] In November of the same year, he participated in al-Mu'tadid's pursuit of the eunuch Wasif in the border regions,[4] while in 901, he dispatched his deputy Nizar ibn Muhammad for a raid into Byzantine territory, from which the latter returned with many prisoners and booty, including 160 priests and many crosses and flags.[3]

Following the death of al-Mu'tadid and the falling out of the new caliph al-Muktafi and the commander-in-chief Badr al-Mu'tadidi in June/July 902, al-Hasan was sent with an army to Wasit, where Badr had sought refuge. In the event, abandoned by his followers, Badr was tricked into accepting a caliphal pardon and was murdered on his way to meet with al-Muktafi.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, pp. 14–15.
  2. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, p. 20 (note 114).
  3. 1 2 PmbZ, Al-Ḥasan b. ʻAlī Kūrah (#22560).
  4. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, pp. 89ff.
  5. ↑ Rosenthal 1985, pp. 105–109.

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