Shu'ayb ibn Khazim

Shu'ayb ibn Khazim was a son of the famed Khurasani Arab general Khazim ibn Khuzayma al-Tamimi, and served as governor of Damascus under Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809).

Sources

Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on horses: the evolution of the Islamic polity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 180–181. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.

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