Isma'il ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Hashimi

Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī (Arabic: إسماعيل بن صالح بن علي الهاشمي) was an eighth century Abbasid governor of Egypt and Aleppo.

Isma'il ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Hashimi إسماعيل بن صالح بن علي الهاشمي
Governor of Egypt
In office 797 – 798 (one year)
Monarch	Harun al-Rashīd
Preceded by	Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi
Succeeded by	Isma'il ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi
Governor of Aleppo and Qinnasrin
In office 798 – c. 802
Monarch	Harun al-Rashīd
Personal details
Relations	Abbasid dynasty
Parent	Salih ibn Ali (father)
Relatives	Al-Fadl ibn Salih (brother) Ibrahim ibn Salih (brother) Abd al-Malik ibn Salih (brother)

A member of the Abbasid family, he was a son of Salih ibn Ali^[1] and a first cousin of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah (r. 750–754) and al-Mansur (r. 754–775). During the reign of Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) he was appointed as governor of Egypt in 797. After an administration lasting slightly less than a year, he was dismissed from that province^[2] and instead posted to Aleppo and Qinnasrin, which he proceeded to hold for an unspecified length of time.^[3]

Notes

1. Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 105; Ibn al-Adim 1996, p. 37.
2. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 138; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 105 (who moves his governorship to 798–799). Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 464, does not include him in his governors list.
3. The latest possible date for the end of his Aleppine governorship is 802. Cobb 2001, pp. 142, 156; Ibn al-Adim 1996, p. 105. Ibn al-Adim goes on to say that Isma'il later served as governor of Damascus, but Cobb was unable to find any corroborating sources for this claim.

References

• Cobb, Paul M. (2001). White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750-880. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-4879-3.
• Ibn al-Adim, Kamal al-Din Abi al-Qasim 'Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah (1996). Zubdat al-Halab min ta'rikh Halab (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah.
• 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.
• Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1985). al-Umari, Akram Diya' (ed.). Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat, 3rd ed (in Arabic). Al-Riyadh: Dar Taybah.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.

Preceded by Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi	Governor of Egypt 797–798	Succeeded by Isma'il ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi