Hatim ibn Harthamah ibn A'yan

Hatim ibn Harthamah ibn A'yan (Arabic: حاتم بن هرثمة بن أعين) (died after 816) was a ninth-century provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate, serving in Egypt (810–811) and Arminiyah and Adharbayjan (816).

Career

Hatim was the son of Harthama ibn A'yan, a high-ranking general during the caliphates of al-Hadi, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun.^[1] He is mentioned as having served as chief of security (shurtah) for his father during the latter's governorship of Egypt in 794–795,^[2] and was later himself appointed over that province by the caliph al-Amin in 810. During his year-long administration he brought an end to ongoing disturbances in the Hawf district by forming an agreement with its residents regarding issues of taxation, and defeated a separate revolt by the people of Tanu and Tumayy led by Uthman ibn al-Mustanir al-Judhami.^[3] He was also responsible for building the palace in the Muqattam hills known as the Qubbat al-Hawa ("Dome of the Winds"), which was used by all subsequent governors until its destruction in 905.^[4] His governorship lasted until March 811, when he was dismissed in favor of Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath al-Ta'i.^[5]

In 816 Hatim was appointed as governor of Arminiyah and Adharbayjan,^[6] but scarcely had he taken up his position when he learned that his father had been imprisoned and killed by al-Ma'mun. In response Hatim took steps to renounce his allegiance to the caliph and attempted to incite the local princes and notables to revolt, but his plans were cut short by his own death soon afterwards. The effects of his actions persisted after his death, however, and were a likely factor in the outbreak of the Khurramite rebellion of Babak, which occurred around the same time.^[7]

Notes

1. Pellat 1971, p. 231.
2. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 136; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 88.
3. Mikhail 2014, p. 124; Al-Kindi 1912, p. 147; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 88.
4. Rabbat 1995, p. 52; Al-Kindi 1912, p. 147; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 88.
5. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 147; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 88–89; Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1198.
6. Al-Azdi 2006, p. 583; Crone 1980, p. 177.
7. Crone 2012, pp. 64–65; Pellat 1971, p. 231; Gordon et al. 2018, p. 1198.

References

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• Crone, Patricia (2012). The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01879-2.
• Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
• Gordon, Matthew S.; Robinson, Chase F.; Rowson, Everett K.; et al., eds. (2018). The Works of Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi: An English Translation. Vol. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-35621-4.
• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
• Mikhail, Maged S. A. (2014). From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Identity and Politics after the Arab Conquest. London and New York: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-938-8.
• Pellat, Ch. (1971). "Hart̲h̲ama b. Aʿyan". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 231. OCLC 495469525.
• Rabbat, Nasser O. (1995). The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mameluk Architecture. Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-10124-1.

Preceded by Al-Hasan ibn al-Takhtakh

Governor of Egypt 810–811

Succeeded by Jabir ibn al-Ash'ath al-Ta'i