Moualabitos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 773 (taq) / 773 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 8601* |
| Variant Names | al-Muhallab |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Africa |
| Textual Sources | Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle); 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) |
Moualabitos 1 was sent to Africa in 773 with a large army by the caliph al-Mansour 1: Theoph. AM 6264 (τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἀπέστειλεν ὁ Ἀβδελᾶς εἰς Ἀφρικὴν τὸν Μουαλάβιτον μετὰ πολλοῦ στρατοῦ). His Arabic name was perhaps al-Muhallab, recalling that of an Arab leader at Basra in the late seventh century; he was perhaps one of his descendants, known as the Muhallabites (cf. Shaban, Islamic History, vol. 1, pp. 98, 102, 104, 109, and vol. 2, pp. 101-102 and Mango and Scott, Theophanes, p. 616 n. 1 for the identification as Yazid b. Hatim of the al-Muhallab family). Called Yezid in Michael the Syrian, he was sent by al-Mansour 1 to put down a rebellion in Africa: Mich. Syr. II 526.
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