Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad

Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad

Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad (Arabic: عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ, romanized: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād) was the Umayyad governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680) and Yazid I (r. 680–683), and the leading general of the Umayyad army under caliphs Marwan I (r. 684–685) and Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705). He virtually inherited the governorships from his father Ziyad ibn Abihi after the latter's death in 673. During Ubayd Allah's governorship, he suppressed Kharijite and Alid revolts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad has received more than 469,270 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad is the 404th most popular military personnel (up from 471st in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 96th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iraqi Military Personnel.

Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad was the governor of Iraq and the commander of the Muslim army in the Battle of Karbala. He is most famous for ordering the death of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, and his family and followers in Karbala.