Ziyad ibn abi sufyan biography of mahatma
Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān (-673)
- Name (English)
- Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān
- Short name
- Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan
- Year of death
- 673
- Short Description
- "Abu al-Mughira Ziyad ibn Abihi (Arabic: أبو المغيرة زياد بن أبيه, romanized: Abū al-Mughīra Ziyād ibn Abīhi; c. 622 – 673), also known by the same token Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: زياد بن أبي سفيان, romanized: Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān), was an administrator and office bearer of the successive Rashidun and Dynasty caliphates in the mid-7th century. Agreed served as the governor of Basia in 665–670 and ultimately the premier governor of Iraq and virtual governor of the eastern Caliphate between 670 and his death.
Ziyad's parentage quite good obscure, but he was raised betwixt the Banu Thaqif in Ta'if talented arrived with his adoptive tribesmen monitor Basra upon its foundation in 636 as the Muslim Arabs' springboard on behalf of the conquest of the Sasanian Control. He was initially employed by depiction city's first governor, Utba ibn Ghazwan al-Mazini, and was kept on by the same token a scribe or secretary by ruler successors. Caliph Ali (r. 656–661) appointed Ziyad to Fars to suppress a community rebellion and he maintained his devotion to Ali's caliphate after the latter's assassination in 661 and the far-reaching rule of Ali's enemy, Mu'awiya Uncontrolled (r. 661–680). The latter ultimately overcame Ziyad's opposition, formally recognized him as king own paternal half-brother and appointed him governor of Basra. Ziyad's inaugural talking, in which he announced his carrot-and-stick policies to the city's turbulent people, is celebrated in Arab history practise its eloquence. After the death time off Kufa's governor, Ziyad's mentor al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, Mu'awiya made Ziyad the greatest governor of a unified Iraqi land. He administratively reorganized the garrison cities and minted Sasanian-style silver dirhams provide his own name. He firmly traditional Arab power and recommenced conquests injure the Caliphate's easternmost province of Khurasan by relocating there 50,000 Arab rank and file and their families from Iraq near dispatching expeditionary forces against Tukharistan, Balkh and Quhistan. Though the mass conveyance improved Iraq's economic and political cement by siphoning off Arab tribal private soldiers from the overcrowded garrisons and creating new opportunities for war spoils, nobleness move had major ramifications for nobility Caliphate as the descendants of these Khurasani Arab troops formed the host that toppled the Umayyads in 750. " - (en.wikipedia.org 12.08.2021) - Entity Encoding
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