- as Ibn Fityan.
After al-Muhtadi was
deposed by the
Turkish commanders Bayakbak and Yarjukh, he was
selected by the
military as his
successor and proclaimed...
- al-Mu'tasim. In 254/868, Ibn
Tulun was sent to
Egypt as
resident governor by
Bāyakbāk (d. 256/870), the
representative of the
Abbasid caliph al-Muʿtazz. Ibn...
- is
commonly held to have
married a
second time, to the
Turkish general Bayakbak or Bakbak. This report, however, does not
appear in Ibn al-Daya or al-Balawi...
- of Balad, the
caliph ordered the
commanders Musa ibn Bugha,
Muflih and
Bayakbak to
proceed against him; a
political crisis in the capital, however, resulted...
- in the
deposition of al-Mu'tazz in 869, when he,
Salih ibn Wasif, and
Bayakbak headed the
party that
arrested the caliph.
Following the
arrival of his...
-
decision to
depose him. On 11 July 869,
Salih and two
other Turkish officers,
Bayakbak and
Muhammad ibn Bugha,
entered the
caliphal palace with
their weapons...
- to be
involved in a plot to
depose the caliph. In 870 Musa,
Muflih and
Bayakbak departed for
Upper Mesopotamia,
where they
fought the
Kharijite rebel leader...
