Hatim Ibn Harthamah Ibn A'yan
Hatim ibn Harthamah ibn A'yan () (died after 816) was a ninth-century provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate, serving in Egypt (810–811) and Arminiyah and Azerbaijan (Iran), Adharbayjan (816). Career Hatim was the son of Harthama ibn A'yan, a high-ranking general during the caliphates of al-Hadi, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun. He is mentioned as having served as chief of security (''shurtah'') for his father during the latter's governorship of Egypt in 794–795, and was later himself appointed over that province by the caliph al-Amin in 810. During his year-long administration he brought an end to ongoing disturbances in the Hawf (Egypt), Hawf district by forming an suhl, agreement with its residents regarding issues of taxation, and defeated a separate revolt by the people of Tanu (Egypt), Tanu and Tumayy led by Uthman ibn al-Mustanir al-Judhami. He was also responsible for building the palace in the Mokattam, Muqattam hills known as the Qubbat al-Hawa ("Dome of the Wind ...
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Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib (566–653 CE), from whom the dynasty takes its name. They ruled as caliphs for most of the caliphate from their capital in Baghdad in modern-day Iraq, after having overthrown the Umayyad Caliphate in the Abbasid Revolution of 750 CE (132  AH). The Abbasid Caliphate first centered its government in Kufa, modern-day Iraq, but in 762 the caliph Al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad, near the ancient Babylonian capital city of Babylon. Baghdad became the center of science, culture and invention in what became known as the Golden Age of Islam. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions, including the House of Wisdom, as well as a multiethnic and multi-religious environment, garnered it a worldwide reputation as the ...
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