Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Ali al-Hashimi

Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Ali (Arabic: أحمد بن إسماعيل بن علي الهاشمي‎)[1] was a minor Abbasid personage and provincial governor who was active in the late eighth and early ninth centuries.

Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Ali أحمد بن إسماعيل بن علي الهاشمي
Abbasid Governor of Mosul
In office 781–783/5
Monarch	Al-Mahdi
Preceded by	Muhammad ibn al-Fadl
Succeeded by	Musa ibn Mus'ab
Abbasid Governor of Mecca
Monarch	Al-Mahdi again appointed by Harun al-Rashid
Abbasid Governor of Yemen
In office 791–791
Monarch	Harun al-Rashid
Preceded by	Abdallah ibn Mus'ab al-Zubayri
Succeeded by	Ibrahim ibn Ubaydallah al-Hajbi
Abbasid Governor of Egypt
In office 803–805
Monarch	Harun al rashid
Preceded by	Al-Layth ibn al-Fadl
Succeeded by	Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Zaynabi
Personal details
Relations	Abbasid dynasty
Father	Isma'il ibn Ali al-Hashimi

Life

Ahmad was the son of Isma'il and a grandson of Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, and was a first cousin of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah (r. 750–754) and al-Mansur (r. 754–775).[2] During the caliphate of al-Mahdi (r. 775–785) he was appointed to the governorship of Mosul (781–783/5)[3] and later became al-Mahdi's final governor of Mecca.[4] Under Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) he was again appointed to Mecca[5] and also served as governor of the Yemen (c. 797).[6][7]

In 803 he was appointed as governor of Egypt. During his tenure in that province, he received an appeal from the Aghlabid ruler of Ifriqiya Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab for help to quell disturbances in the region of Tripoli. He remained in Egypt in two years, before being dismissed and replaced with Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Zaynabi in 805.[8]

Notes

1. For his full name, see Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 126.
2. Ibn Hazm 1982, p. 35; Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 29: p. 227 n. 741; v. 30: p. xxiv.
3. Forand 1969, p. 96.
4. Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 440.
5. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 30: p. 304; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 461
6. Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1160; Ibn Abd al-Majid 1985, p. 26; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 461.
7. According to Ibn Qutaybah n.d., p. 374, he was additionally governor of Fars and Medina at unspecified dates.
8. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 141; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 124-25; Ibn Hazm 1982, p. 35. Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 464, skips over both him and al-Zaynabi, jumping straight from al-Layth ibn al-Fadl to al-Husayn ibn Jamil.

References

• Forand, Paul G. (January–March 1969). "The Governors of Mosul According to al-Azdī's Ta'rīkh al-Mawṣil". American Oriental Society. 89 (1): 88–105. doi:10.2307/598281. JSTOR 598281.
• Gordon, Matthew S.; Robinson, Chase F.; Rowson, Everett K.; et al., eds. (2018). The Works of Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi: An English Translation. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-35621-4.
• Ibn Abd al-Majid, Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Baqi al-Yamani (1985). Ta'rikh al-Yaman al-Musamma Bahjat al-Zaman fi Ta'rikh al-Yaman. Sana'a: Dar Kalimah.
• Ibn Hazm, Abu Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi (1982). Harun, 'Abd al-Salam Muhammad (ed.). Jamharat Ansab al-'Arab (in Arabic) (5th ed.). Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif.
• Ibn Qutaybah, Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Muslim (n.d.). Ukashah, Tharwat (ed.). Al-Ma'arif (4th ed.). Cairo: al-Dar Ma'arif.
• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
• Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1985). al-Umari, Akram Diya' (ed.). Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat, 3rd ed (in Arabic). Al-Riyadh: Dar Taybah.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
• Yarshater, Ehsan, ed. (1985–2007). The History of al-Ṭabarī (40 vols). SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7249-1.