-
Najdiyya Kharijites from
Bahrayn after they
overran the province, but the
Zubayrids were repulsed.
Hamza proved incompetent in his
administration of Iraq...
- the
Zubayrids were two of the
Companions of the
Prophet dynasties which held the most
numerous lands and
estates within caliphate realm. The
Zubayrids regime...
-
himself in Ta'if and
bested the
Zubayrids in
several skirmishes. In the meantime,
Syrian forces captured Medina from its
Zubayrid governor,
later marching to...
-
rebel Qaysi tribes in the
Jazira before advancing against the
Alids and
Zubayrids of Iraq. However, he was
slain and his
forces routed at the
Battle of...
- who
joined the
Zubayrids after their victory in Kufa and was
transferred to that city. As
governor over the
region wedged between Zubayrid-controlled Iraq...
- They
waged war
against the
governments of Ali and
later the
Umayyads and
Zubayrids, all of whom they
viewed as
illegitimate rulers. By the time of the Second...
- al-Malik used the
respite from the
truce to
initiate a
campaign against the
Zubayrids of Iraq, but was
forced to
return to
Damascus when al-Ashdaq and his loyalists...
- Bakr, the Banu Taym
attained a
measure of
influence in the state. The
Zubayrids' main
challenge in Iraq came from the
ruler of Kufa, al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi...
-
killed in the
ensuing clashes. Afterward, Ibn al-Ashtar
defected to the
Zubayrids,
despite the
efforts of
Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik to woo him to the...
- 685, he
dispatched an army led by Ibn
Ziyad to
conquer Iraq from the
Zubayrids and the pro-Alids (partisans of
Caliph Ali and his
household and the forerunners...
