Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Ali al-Hashimi

Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Ali (Arabic: أحمد بن إسماعيل بن علي الهاشمي‎)[1] was a minor Abbasid personage and provincial governor who was active in the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

Life

Ahmad was the son of Isma'il and a grandson of Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, and was a first cousin of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah (r. 750–754) and al-Mansur (r. 754–775).[2] During the caliphate of al-Mahdi (r. 775–785) he was appointed to the governorship of Mosul (781–783/5)[3] and later became al-Mahdi's final governor of Mecca.[4] Under Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) he was again appointed to Mecca[5] and also served as governor of the Yemen (c. 797).[6][7]

In 803 he was appointed as governor of Egypt. During his tenure in that province, he received an appeal from the Aghlabid ruler of Ifriqiya Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab for help to quell disturbances in the region of Tripoli. He remained in Egypt in two years, before being dismissed and replaced with Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Zaynabi in 805.[8]

Notes

1. For his full name, see Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 126.
2. Ibn Hazm 1982, p. 35; Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 29: p. 227 n. 741; v. 30: p. xxiv.
3. Forand 1969, p. 96.
4. Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 440.
5. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 30: p. 304; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 461
6. Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1160; Ibn Abd al-Majid 1985, p. 26; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 461.
7. According to Ibn Qutaybah n.d., p. 374, he was additionally governor of Fars and Medina at unspecified dates.
8. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 141; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 124-25; Ibn Hazm 1982, p. 35. Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 464, skips over both him and al-Zaynabi, jumping straight from al-Layth ibn al-Fadl to al-Husayn ibn Jamil.

References

• Forand, Paul G. (January–March 1969). "The Governors of Mosul According to al-Azdī's Ta'rīkh al-Mawṣil". American Oriental Society. 89 (1): 88–105. doi:10.2307/598281. JSTOR 598281.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Gordon, Matthew S.; Robinson, Chase F.; Rowson, Everett K.; et al., eds. (2018). The Works of Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi: An English Translation. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-35621-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Ibn Abd al-Majid, Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Baqi al-Yamani (1985). Ta'rikh al-Yaman al-Musamma Bahjat al-Zaman fi Ta'rikh al-Yaman. Sana'a: Dar Kalimah.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Ibn Hazm, Abu Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi (1982). Harun, 'Abd al-Salam Muhammad (ed.). Jamharat Ansab al-'Arab (in Arabic) (5th ed.). Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Ibn Qutaybah, Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Muslim (n.d.). Ukashah, Tharwat (ed.). Al-Ma'arif (4th ed.). Cairo: al-Dar Ma'arif.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1985). al-Umari, Akram Diya' (ed.). Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat, 3rd ed (in Arabic). Al-Riyadh: Dar Taybah.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leydon and London: E. J. Brill.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Yarshater, Ehsan, ed. (1985–2007). The History of al-Ṭabarī (40 vols). SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7249-1.

Preceded by Muhammad ibn al-Fadl	Governor of Mosul 781–783/5	Succeeded by Musa ibn Mus'ab al-Khath'ami
Preceded by Abdallah ibn Mus'ab al-Zubayri (?)	Abbasid governor of the Yemen c. 791	Succeeded by Ibrahim ibn Ubaydallah al-Hajbi (?)
Preceded by Al-Layth ibn al-Fadl	Governor of Egypt 803–805	Succeeded by Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Zaynabi