Sulayman ibn Ghalib al-Bajali

Sulayman ibn Ghalib ibn Jibril al-Bajali (Arabic: سليمان بن غالب بن جبريل البجلي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 816 to 817.

Career

Sulayman was a grandson of Jibril ibn Yahya al-Bajali, a Khurasani who had likely participated in the Abbasid Revolution.^[1] He was appointed to the head of the Egyptian shurta in 809 and 811 before being propelled to the governorship on the back of a troop mutiny which resulted in the deposition of al-Sari ibn al-Hakam in September 816. He did not remain in office for long before the troops turned on him as well, and he was forced aside in February 817 after a tenure of five months, while al-Sari was returned to power.^[2][3][4][5]

Sulayman's son Muhammad later acted as a head of the shurta in 851.^[6][7][5]

Notes

1. Crone 1980, pp. 179–80.
2. Grohmann 1997, p. 55.
3. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 146, 148, 165–67.
4. Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 141, 168–69.
5. Crone 1980, p. 180.
6. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 199.
7. Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 288.

References

• Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
• Grohmann, A. (1997). "al-Sarī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume IX: San–Sze. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 55. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_6641. ISBN 978-90-04-10422-8.
• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II. 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.

Preceded by al-Sari ibn al-Hakam	Governor of Egypt 816–817	Succeeded by al-Sari ibn al-Hakam