Chālid Al-QsRī – Wikipedia Wikipedia

Chālid IBN ʿabdallāh al-Qasrī (Arabic Khalid bin Abdullah Al -Qasari , DMG Ḫālid ibndallāh al-Qṣrī Born 686, † 743/44 in Kufa) served the Umayyad as governor initially from Mecca and later, during the caliphate of Hischām Ibn ʿAbdalmalik, Iraq.

Chālid was one of the Qasr , a clan of the Arabic tribe in Badschīla, and had a Christian mother. When and where he was born is not mentioned in any source. However, the historian Chalīfa Ibn al-Chaiyāt reports that he in 126 i.e. (743 AD) was killed at the age of 60. Accordingly, in 66 i.e. (686 AD). He spent part of his youth in Medina. He is mentioned there in connection with singers. ^[first]

As a young man, Chālid seems to have been related to al-Haddschādsch ibn yūsuf. At his recommendation, the Caliph AL-Walid I appointed him in 89 i.e. (= 707 AD) To the governor of Mecca. ^[2] In this office he carried out various reforms in the pilgrimage ritual. So he determined that from then on women and men were separated from Tawāf. To monitor this gender separation, guards, which were equipped with whips were equipped with whip. ^[3]

His arrest of the Saʿīd ibn Jubair also caused a sensation on behalf of Al-Haddschādsch, who had him executed to Iraq after his transfer. Saʿīd Ibn Jubair had played a leading role in the mobilization of the Koran readers in the uprising of the IBN al-Schaschʿath (699-701) and then fled to Mecca to Mecca, who acted as an asylum. Its delivery by Chālid was seen in pious circles as a severe injustice. ^[4]

Chālid also built a water pipe, which he led to a pelvis next to the Zamzam fountain from a fountain outside of Mecca on the command of the Sulaiman ibn Abd al-Malik from a fountain outside of Mecca. ^[5]

After his deduction from the governor’s post in Mecca, which probably still took place during the calipat of Sulaiman Ibn Abd al-Malik, Chālid was briefly used as a envoy for the Caliph Yazid II. Around 724, Hischām Ibn ʿAbdalmalik used him as a governor in Iraq, where there were strong tensions between the Mudar and Yaman tribal groups at that time. The fact that Hischām chose him for this office probably had to do with the fact that Chālid belonged to a tribe who belonged to neither groups and could thus act as an intermediary. However, Chālid was soon drawn into the clashes between the two groups because the Mudar began to fight him.

Otherwise there is little known about his governorship in Iraq, but his name appears in the second half of the 730s in connection with the suppression of various heretical movements. Among the heretics he is said to have executed, Al-Dschaʿd Ibn Dirham and the Schiit al-Mughīra Ibn Saʿīd. He himself apparently also had little inhibitions to snub the Muslims. So he built a church for his Christian mother right next to the main mosque of Kufa and publicly expressed that Christianity was better than Islam. Also, he was also not afraid to prefer Zoroastrier and Christians at the allocation of office. ^[6]

When his tax revenue rose disproportionately due to the agricultural reforms he carried out, this is said to have caused the envy of Hischām. According to the Arabic sources, this was also the real reason for his deduction in 738, after which he remained imprisoned for some time. Released again, Chālid spent a time at Hischāms in Ar-Rusāfa and in Damascus.

Hischām’s successor Al-Walid II, who preferred the Qais faction among the Arabs and rejected the Yaman, had Chālid, who was considered the leader of the Yaman, from his governor in Iraq, Yūsuf Ibn ʿUmar athhaqafī, and in Kufa Torture death. Al-Walīd’s murder in April 744 took place for the murder of Chālid. ^[7] The Calbetic Poet Al-Asbagh Ibn Dhu’āla wrote about it:

• Harald Cornelius: Ḫālid b. ʿAbdallāh al-Qasrī: governor of Iraq under the Omayyades (724-738 AD). Frankfurt am Main, Univ., Phil. F., Diss., 1958.
• G. R. Hawting: Art. ” Customer ālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḳaṣrī” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Bd. IV, S. 925b-927a.
• Stefan Leder: “Features of the novel in early historiography – The downfall of Khâlid al-Qasrî” in Orient 32 (1990) 72-96.

1. ↑ VGL. Cornelius: Ḫālid b. ʿAbdallāh al-Qasrī . 1958, S. 13.
2. ↑ VGL. Cornelius: Ḫālid b. ʿAbdallāh al-Qasrī . 1958, S. 13.
3. ↑ VGL. Al-Azraqī: AḫBāR Makka Wa-Mā ǧāʾA Fī-Hā Min Al-āṯāR . Ed. Design field. Leipzig 1858. p. 365, line 13ff. Digitized
4. ↑ Vgl. H. MOKETTI: Art. “SA’īd Ibn Dj ubayr” in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition. Bd. XII, S. 697–698.697.
5. ↑ VGL. Cornelius: Ḫālid b. ʿAbdallāh al-Qasrī . 1958, S. 13f.
6. ↑ VGL. Hawting 926B.
7. ↑ VGL. Al-Mas’ūdī: KOMANB A-TANBKIA WA-L-Iš . Ed. Michael Jan the Goeje. Brill, suffer, 1894. S. 3 323F. Digitized .
8. ↑ VGL. Al-Mas’ūdī: KOMANB A-TANBKIA WA-L-Iš . Ed. Michael Jan the Goeje. Brill, suffer, 1894. S. S. 324.