Sulayman ibn al-Hasan ibn Makhlad () () was an official of the

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 ...

. The son of the former

vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...

al-Hasan ibn Makhlad al-Jarrah Al-Hasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrah () was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate. Born a Nestorian Christian, he converted to Islam late in life, and served as secretary under Caliph al-Mutawakkil (r. 847–861). Under Caliph al-Mu'tamid (r. 870 ...

, Sulayman rose to occupy the office of vizier three times, in 930–931, 936, and lastly in 940–941, under the '' amir al-umara''

Bajkam Abū al-Husayn Bajkam al-Mākānī ( ar, أبو الحسين بجكم المكاني), referred to as Bajkam, Badjkam or Bachkam (from ''Bäčkäm'', a Persian and Turkish word meaning a horse- or yak-tailCanard (1960), pp. 866–867), was a Turk ...

. According to the modern historian of the Abbasid vizierate,

Dominique Sourdel Dominique Sourdel (31 Januar 1921, Pont-Sainte-Maxence – 4 March 2014, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French historian who specialized in Medieval Islam. He was professor of the Paris-Sorbonne University. Books *''L'Islam (1949)'', PUF, ''Que sais ...

, he was "remarkable mainly for his ineptitude".

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* 9th-century births 10th-century deaths Viziers of the Abbasid Caliphate {{Islam-bio-stub 10th-century Arab people