Abuchazar 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 829 (tpq) / 842 (taq) |
| PmbZ No. | 110 |
| Variant Names | Abouchazar |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Textual Sources | Scylitzes, Ioannes, Synopsis Historiarum, ed. J. Thurn (Berlin, 1973) (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Commander of an Arab army against the emperor Theophilos 5; he was sent with eighty thousand men against the emperor by the caliph (see Ibrâhîm 3) and defeated the Romans but failed to capture the emperor's person (see Theophobos 1): Theoph. Cont. III 22 (p. 113), Zon. XV 27. 26- 27, Scyl., p. 67 (styled ἀρχηγός and στρατηγός).
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