Khalid 4 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Floruit | E VIII |
Dates | 708 (taq) / 709 (tpq) |
Religion | Muslim |
Ethnicity | Arab |
Textual Sources | Elias Barshinaya, Chronicle (Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni, Opus chronologicum, pars prior, ed. and tr. E. W. Brooks, CSCO 62 and CSCO 63 (1910) (chronicle) |
In AH 90 (AD Nov. 708/Nov. 709) = 1020 Sel. (AD 708/709), Khalid ibn Kaisan (Khalid 4), who was the emir of the sea (presumably in command of Arab naval matters), was taken prisoner by the Romans: Elias, Chron., p. 158, 18-24 = p. 76.
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