Nasr al-Thamali

Naṣr ath-Thamali (Arabic: نصر الثملي‎‎) was an Abbasid military commander and governor (wali or amir) of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia (ath-thughur ash-Shamiya).

Life

As his nisba shows, he was a former ghulam of Thamal al-Dulafi, who was the governor of Tarsus and the borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia in ca. 923–932.[1][2]

By 941, Nasr was himself governor of Tarsus. In winter of that year (December 941/January 942) he took advantage of a Byzantine expedition against Aleppo to raid Byzantine territory himself, returning with much plunder and prisoners, including senior Byzantine commanders.[3] In October 946 he supervised the prisoner exchange with the Byzantines—headed by John the Mystikos and the magistros Kosmas—on the river Lamos on behalf of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla, who had in the meantime become the new overlord of the Cilician marches. 2,482 Muslims were exchanged for an equal number of Byzantine captives; as the Byzantines held 230 prisoners more, they had to be ransomed with money.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Stern 1960, p. 221.
  2. ↑ PmbZ, Ṯamal ad-Dulafī (#27558).
  3. 1 2 PmbZ, Naṣr aṯ-Ṯamalī (#25494).
  4. ↑ Stern 1960, p. 223.

Sources

Preceded by
Bushra al-Thamali		 Governor of Tarsus
ca. 941–946 		Unknown
Title next held by
Ibn az-Zayyat
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