Abdullah ibn Muawiya

Abdullah ibn Muawiya, or Abdallah ibn Muawiya (Arabic: عبدلله بن معاویهTransliteration: , Alid rebel and Imam. He was descendant of Jafar ibn Abi Talib. After the death of Abu Hashim, a grandson of Ali, and Shia's Imam, claims were laid to the Imamate from several Shia groups. They turned to Abdulla be the rightful Imam. The latter claimed that both the godhead and the prophetic office were united in him, because the spirit of God had been transferred from the one Imam to the other and had finally come to him.[1]

At the end of 127 AH/ 744 AD Shia's is Kufa set up him as Imam. In Muharram 127/Oct. 744, Abd Allah revolted in Kufa with his many followers, especially from amongst the Zaidiyyah.[1]

He revolted against Yazid III, the Umayyad Caliph, with the support of Shia's of Kufa and Ctesiphon. He moved to west of Iran and Isfahan and Istakhr. He managed to control the west of Iran for two years. Finally, he was defeated by the caliph armies in 746-7 AD and fled to Harat in Khorasan. He died in Abumuslim prison, his rival. His followers did not believe his death and said that he went to occultation and he would return as Mahdi.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b ZETTERSTEEN, K. V. (1986). H. A. R. GIBB, J. H. KRAMERS, E. LfiVI-PROVENgAL, J. SCHACHT. ed. ABD ALLAH B. MUAWIYA, THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM NEW EDITION. LEIDEN: BRILL. pp. 48–49. ISBN 90 04 08114 3. 
  2. ^ Halm, Heinz (2004). Shi'ism (2nd ed.). Columbia University Press. pp. 22.