Bashir or Bushra al-Thamali was an Abbasid military commander and governor (wali or amir) of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia (thughur ash-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 served as 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]
References[]
- ↑ Stern 1960, p. 222.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 PmbZ, Bašīr aṯ-Ṯamalī (#21132).
- ↑ Stern 1960, pp. 221, 223.
Sources[]
- Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Zielke, Beate et al., eds (2013) (in German). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Nach Vorarbeiten F. Winkelmanns erstellt. De Gruyter. http://www.degruyter.com/view/db/pmbz.
- Stern, S. M. (1960). "The Coins of Thamal and of Other Governors of Tarsus". pp. 217–225. Digital object identifier:10.2307/596170. http://www.jstor.org/stable/596170.
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