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Sulayman ibn Ghalib ibn Jibril al-Bajali (Arabic: سليمان بن غالب بن جبريل البجلي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 816 to 817.

Career

Sulayman was a grandson of Jibril ibn Yahya al-Bajali, a Khurasani who had likely participated in the Abbasid Revolution. He was appointed to the head of the Egyptian shurta in 809 and 811 before being propelled to the governorship on the back of a troop mutiny which resulted in the deposition of al-Sari ibn al-Hakam in September 816. He did not remain in office for long before the troops turned on him as well, and he was forced aside in February 817 after a tenure of five months, while al-Sari was returned to power.

Sulayman's son Muhammad later acted as a head of the shurta in 851.

Notes

1. Crone 1980, pp. 179–80.
2. Grohmann 1997, p. 55.
3. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 146, 148, 165–67.
4. Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 141, 168–69.
5. ^ Crone 1980, p. 180.
6. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 199.
7. Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 288.

References

• Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
• Grohmann, A. (1997). "al-Sarī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume IX: San–Sze. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 55. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_6641. ISBN 978-90-04-10422-8.
• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.

• 9th-century Abbasid governors of Egypt
• 9th-century Arab people