Abd Allah Ibn Umar Ibn Abd Al-Aziz
( ar, عبد الله بن عمر بن عبد العزيز; died 750) was an Umayyad prince, the son of Caliph Umar II (), and briefly List of Umayyad governors of Iraq, governor of Iraq under Yazid III in 744–745. In this capacity he quelled the pro-Alid rebellion of Abd Allah ibn Mu'awiya at Kufa, although Ibn Mu'awiya managed to flee to Istakhr in Persia. Following the death of Yazid III, Marwan II (), who seized the throne, appointed a supporter of his own, the Banu Qays, Qaysi Nadr ibn Sa'id al-Harashi, as governor of Iraq, but Abd Allah ibn Umar retained the loyalty of the Banu Kalb, Kalbi majority of the Syrian garrison of Iraq. Ibn Umar remained at al-Hira, while Nadr and his followers installed themselves at the suburb of Dayr Hind, and for several months the two rival governors and their troops confronted and skirmished at each other around al-Hira. The conflict between Ibn Umar and al-Nadr was abruptly ended by the Kharijite revolt which had begun among the Banu Rab ...
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