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THE ORIGINS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE

Armenia rebels. During the insurrection of ibn-az-Zubair, Armenia rose and its nobles[1] with their followers threw off their allegiance. When Muḥammad ibn-Marwân held under his brother ʿAbd-al-Malik the governorship of Armenia, he led the fight against them and won the victory, slaughtering and taking captives. Thus, he subdued the land. He promised those who survived higher stipends than the ordinary soldiers' pay. For that purpose they assembled in churches in the province of Khilâṭ where he locked them in and put guards on the door, and then he frightened them. In this campaign umm-Yazîd ibn-Usaid was taken captive from as-Sîsajân, she being the daughter of as-Sîsajân's patrician.

ʿAdi governor of Armenia. Sulaimân ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik made ʿAdi ibn-ʿAdi ibn-ʿAmîrah[2]-l-Kindi governor of Armenia. ʿAdi ibn-ʿAmîrah was one of those who had left ʿAli ibn-abi-Ṭâlib and settled in ar-Raḳḳah. He was later made the governor of Armenia by ʿUmar ibn-ʿAbd-al-ʿAzîz. This ʿAdi was the one after whom the Nahr ʿAdi at al-Bailaḳân was named. According to others, the ʿâmil of ʿUmar was Ḥâtim ibn-an-Nuʿmân, but that is not confirmed.

Miʿlaḳ and al-Ḥârith as governors. Yazîd ibn-ʿAbd-al-Malik conferred the governorship on Miʿlaḳ ibn-Ṣaffâr al-Bahrâni, but he later dismissed him and assigned al-Ḥârith ibn-ʿAmr aṭ-Ṭâʾi, who made an incursion against the inhabitants of al-Lakz[3] conquering the district of Ḥasmadân.[4]

Al-Jarrâḥ as governor. When al-Jarrâḥ ibn-ʿAbdallâh

  1. Ar. aḥrâr, the class that constituted the aristocracy of Armenia before the Persian rule; see Yâḳût, vol. i, pp. 222, 438.
  2. Ṭabari, vol. ii, p. 887: "ʿUmairah".
  3. Yâḳût, vol. iv, p. 364.
  4. "Jashmadân," Iṣtakhri, p. 187.