Hamdan ibn Hamdun
Taghlibi chieftain and patriarch of the Hamdanid dynasty.
Hamdan ibn Hamdun ibn al-Harith al-Taghlibi was a Taghlibi Arab chieftain in the Jazira and the patriarch of the Hamdanid dynasty. He resisted Abbasid re-imposition of control in the 880s and joined the Kharijite Rebellion. Captured by Caliph al-Mu'tadid in 895, he was later released due to his son Husayn's services.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Hamdan ibn Hamdun ibn al-Harith al-Taghlibi
- Tribe
- Banu Taghlib
- Region
- Jazira
- Role
- Chieftain, rebel leader
- Year of capture
- 895
- Captured by
- Caliph al-Mu'tadid
- Dynasty founded
- Hamdanid
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Life
Hamdan ibn Hamdun came from the Banu Taghlib, a tribe that had lived in the Jazira region long before Islam. The Taghlib were especially powerful around Mosul and took control there during the Anarchy at Samarra, when the Abbasid government lost its grip. Hamdan first shows up in historical records in 868, fighting with his tribe against a Kharijite uprising. In 879, the Abbasids tried to reassert control by replacing Taghlibi governors with a Turkish commander named Ishaq ibn Kundajiq.
This pushed Hamdan and other Taghlib leaders to join the Kharijite rebels. Hamdan rose to prominence in the rebellion, earning the Kharijite title "al-Shari." In 881, Ibn Kundajiq crushed the rebel army, and Hamdan was among those defeated. A new caliph, al-Mu'tadid, took power in 892 and set out to restore order.
Hamdan resisted fiercely from his fortresses at Mardin and Ardamusht, backed by Kurdish allies. But in 895, the caliph captured Mardin, then Ardamusht after Hamdan's son Husayn surrendered it. Hamdan fled, but after a long chase he gave up and turned himself in at Mosul, where he was imprisoned.
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