Sulayman ibn Ghalib ibn Jibril al-Bajali ( ar, سليمان بن غالب بن جبريل البجلي) was a governor of

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

for 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 ...

, from 816 to 817.

Career

Sulayman was a grandson of Jibril ibn Yahya al-Bajali, a Khurasani who had likely participated in the

Abbasid Revolution The Abbasid Revolution, also called the Movement of the Men of the Black Raiment, was the overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE), the second of the four major Caliphates in early History of Islam, Islamic history, by the third, the A ...

. He was appointed to the head of the Egyptian '' shurta'' in 809 and 811 before being propelled to the governorship on the back of a troop mutiny which resulted in the deposition of

al-Sari ibn al-Hakam Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam ibn Yusuf al-Zutti () (died November 820), also known as Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam al-Balkhi served twice as the Abbasid Caliphate's governor of Egypt. Career Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam was of Zutt origin. According to al-Kindi, he was ...

in September 816. He did not remain in office for long before the troops turned on him as well, and he was forced aside in February 817 after a tenure of five months, while al-Sari was returned to power. Sulayman's son Muhammad later acted as a head of the ''shurta'' in 851.

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