Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath al-Ta'i

Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Yahya al-Ta'i (Arabic: جابر بن الأشعث بن يحيى الطائي‎) was a governor of Egypt, from 811 to 812.

He was appointed in March 811 by the caliph al-Amin, replacing Hatim ibn Harthamah ibn A'yan. Soon afterwards however he was forced to contend with the outbreak of civil war between al-Amin and his brother al-Ma'mun, and before long his continued loyalty to the former had put him at odds with a faction of the local jund led by al-Sari ibn al-Hakam, which favored recognizing al-Ma'mun as caliph instead. In the spring of 812 the jund, with the encouragement of al-Ma'mun, openly switched their allegiance and revolted, and Jabir was overthrown from his position. A partisan of al-Ma'mun, Abbad ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyan, then assumed the governorship and took up power in Fustat, but other parts of Egypt continued to remain loyal to al-Amin under the anti-governor Rabi'ah ibn Qays ibn Zubayr al-Jurashi.[1]

Notes
  1. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 147-49; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 148-50; Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1198.
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References
  • 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 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)
  • Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
Preceded by
Hatim ibn Harthamah ibn A'yan		 Governor of Egypt
811–812		 Succeeded by
Abbad ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyan
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