Bashmurian revolts

BelligerentsUmayyad Caliphate
(720, 749)
Abbasid Caliphate
(767, 831–832) Egyptian rebelsCommanders and leaders 749: Ḥawthara ibn Suhayl
767: Yazīd ibn Ḥātim
831–832: al-Afshīn 749: Mina, son of Apacyrus †

The Bashmurianrevolts (Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲧⲱⲟⲩⲛ Ⲙ̀ⲡⲓϣⲁⲙⲏⲣ; Egyptian Arabic: ثورة البشموريين) were a series of revolts by the Egyptian Copts in the Bashmur region in the north of the Nile Delta against the Umayyad Caliphate and Abbasid Caliphate in the eighth and ninth centuries. Exactly how many revolts took place cannot be determined, but the major military conflicts took place in 749, 767 and 831–832.

The Bashmurian revolts are known from Coptic and Arabic sources. They did not become known in Europe until the early nineteenth century.