Abdallah ibn Qais () (Κάϊσος, ''Kaisos'' and , ''Abdelas'' in

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sources) was an

Umayyad The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE; , ; ar, ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, al-Khilāfah al-ʾUmawīyah) was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the ...

military leader active against the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

in the 670s. In ca. 672/673 he led a raid into

Cilicia Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coa ...

and

Lycia Lycia (Lycian language, Lycian: 𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊖 ''Trm̃mis''; el, Λυκία, ; tr, Likya) was a state or nationality that flourished in Anatolia from 15–14th centuries BC (as Lukka) to 546 BC. It bordered the Mediterranean ...

, and wintered there before returning to Syria. In 674/675, by which time, according to

al-Tabari ( ar, أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير بن يزيد الطبري), more commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Muslim historian and scholar from Amol, Tabaristan. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari ...

, he was admiral-in-chief of the Umayyad navy, he led a raid against the island of

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along with general

Fadala ibn Ubayd Faḍāla ibn ʿUbayd al-Anṣārī (''Phadalas'' in Greek sources; died 673 or 678/79) was the qadi of Damascus and a commander under the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I (). The Islamic and Byzantine sources variously report several military campaigns, ...

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abdallah Ibn Qais 7th-century births Arab generals Admirals of the medieval Islamic world Umayyad people of the Arab–Byzantine wars Generals of the Umayyad Caliphate Year of death unknown 7th-century Arabs