Abdullah 3

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VII
Dates683 (c) / 688 (c)
PmbZ No.13
Variant NamesAbdelas;
'bd'lh br Zwbyr
ReligionMuslim
EthnicityArab
LocationsConstantinople;
Mecca (deathplace);
Aithrib (officeplace);
Mecca (residence);
Medina (residence);
Mecca;
Medina
TitlesCaliph (office)
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history);
Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle)

Abdullah 3 was `Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr, rival to Yezid 1 as caliph; see Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. I, pp. 54-55. Brother of `Amr b. al-Zubayr: Tabari XVIII, p. 217. In AH 49 (Feb. 669/Jan. 670) he accompanied the expedition of Yezid 1 against Constantinople: Tabari XVIII, p. 94. See also Abdullah 8, Abdullah 9 and Abu Ayyub 1. Also mentioned in Tabari XVIII, pp. 186, 209-210, 225. He died on 17 Junada I or II, in AH 73 (4 October or 3 November 692); see Encyclopaedia of Islam, cited above. Son of al-Zubayr 1: Theoph. AM 6175, AM 6180, AM 6181 (Zouber), Chron. 1234, §§143, 144, 147 (pp. 290, 291, 293) ('bd'lh br Zwbyr). Brother of Mousabos 1: Theoph. AM 6180. He was recognised as successor to Yezid I (Yezid 1, in 683) by the Arabs of the Desert (but not in Syria) (and cf. Al-Dahhak 2): Theoph. AM 6175, Chron. 1234, §143 (p. 290) ("those in the East and Medina"), §144 (p. 291). In c. 687 he sent his brother (Mousabos 1) to fight against al-Mukhtar 1: Theoph. AM 6180. He was overthrown and killed at Mecca in c. 688 when Abdulmalik 1 sent al-Hajjaj 1 against him: Theoph. AM 6175, AM 6181 (the Khagan was sent κατὰ τοῦ Ζουβεὶρ Χαγὰν, i.e. against the son of Zoubeir), Chron. 1234, §147 (p. 293). For "the Khagan", see al-Hajjaj 1. Son of Zouber (Al-Zubayr 1); chosen as ruler by the Arabs of Aithrib after the death of Yezid (Yezid 1); defeated and killed by Abimelech (Abdulmalik 1): Const. Porph., DAI 21, 39ff.

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