Khalid ibn Yazid al-Shaybani (in

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general and governor for the

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, active in the second quarter of the 9th century. Khalid was a member of the Shayban tribe, dominant in the region of Diyar Bakr in the northern

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,Ter-Ghevondyan (1976), p. 27 and third son of

Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani ( ar, يزيد بن مزيد الشيباني, Yazīd ibn Mazyad al-Shaybānī; died 801) was an Arab general and governor who served the Abbasid Caliphate. Biography Yazid was member of the Shayban tribe, dominant ...

, who served twice as Arab governor (''

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'') of ''

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'' (a large province encompassing the whole of

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).Ter-Ghevondyan (1976), pp. 27–28 Khalid served in the same office no less than four times: in 813/814, 828–832, briefly in 841 and again under Caliph

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(r. 842–845).Ter-Ghevondyan (1976), p. 28 In his first tenure, he showed himself conciliatory towards the native Christian population and the ''

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'' princes, but his second tenure was marked by the brutal suppression of several revolts by local Arab magnates, as well as the harsh treatment of the Christian population. As a result, when his re-appointment to the office was announced in 841, a rebellion broke out, forcing the

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government to recall him immediately. Nevertheless, al-Wathiq assigned ''Arminiya'' to Khalid. The latter arrived in the province at the head of an army, and crushed the opposition, headed by the Muslim rebel Sawada ibn Abd al-Hamid al-Jahhafi and the Christian princes

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and Sahak of Syunik at the Battle of Kawakert. He died soon after at Dvin, where he was buried. He was succeeded by his son,

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. His younger son

Haytham ibn Khalid Haytham ibn Khalid was the first Shirvanshah, or independent ruler of Shirvan, renouncing the suzerainty of the Abbasid Caliphate in 861 and beginning the Mazyadid dynasty. Biography He was the son of the Shaybani Arab Khalid ibn Yazid al-Sha ...

ruled in the family's stronghold of

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, and was the first to claim the title of '' Shirvanshah''. In 822, Khalid briefly served as governor of

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, in an attempt by Caliph al-Ma'mun (r. 813–833) to re-establish Abbasid control over the province, which was divided by strife among rival Arab factions. Although supported by the head of the one faction Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Jarawi, Khalid was outmaneuvered by the head of the other, Ubayd Allah ibn al-Sari, and was forced to abandon Egypt.Kennedy (1998), p. 81

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