Bushra al-Thamali

Bashir or Bushra al-Thamali (Arabic: بشرى الثملي‎, romanized: Bushrā al-Thamalī) was an Abbasid military commander and governor (wali or amir) of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia (al-thughur al-Shamiya).

Life

In 925 he served as the deputy of the governor of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia, Thamal al-Dulafi during the latter's absence in a campaign against the Qarmatians in Iraq. Along with the court eunuch Muflih he supervised the prisoner exchange with the Byzantines at the Lamos River in September–October 925.[1][2]

By 938, he occupied the post the governor himself, and again supervised a prisoner exchange with the Byzantines, along with Ibn Warqa al-Shaybani. After 6,300 Muslims were exchanged for an equivalent number of Byzantines, the Byzantines still held 800 Muslim prisoners, who were ransomed over the next six months at the Podandos river.[2][3]

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References
  1. Stern 1960, p. 222.
  2. PmbZ, Bašīr aṯ-Ṯamalī (#21132).
  3. Stern 1960, pp. 221, 223.

Sources
  • Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (2013). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nach Vorarbeiten F. Winkelmanns erstellt (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
  • Stern, S. M. (1960). "The Coins of Thamal and of Other Governors of Tarsus". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 80 (3): 217–225. doi:10.2307/596170. JSTOR 596170.
Preceded by
Thamal al-Dulafi		 Governor of Tarsus
ca. 938		 Unknown
Title next held by
Nasr al-Thamali
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