Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Qasri

Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Qasri (Arabic: محمد بن خالد القسري‎) was a son of the famed Khalid al-Qasri, the longtime (724–738) governor of Iraq for the Umayyads.[1]

During the Abbasid Revolution, he participated in the uprising at Kufa at the approach of the Abbasid army,[1] and later was appointed governor of Mecca, Medina, and Ta'if by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur.[2]

References
  1. Crone 1980, p. 102.
  2. Crone 1980, p. 103.

Sources
  • Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
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