Yazid ibn al-Muhallab

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab

Yazid ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdi (Arabic: يزيد بن المهلب, romanized: Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdī; 672/673–24 August 720) was a commander and statesman for the Umayyad Caliphate in Iraq and Khurasan in the early 8th century. In 720, he led the last of a series of wide scale Iraqi rebellions against the Umayyads. He succeeded his father, the prominent general al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, as governor of Khurasan, in 702. In 704, Yazid was dismissed and imprisoned by the Umayyad viceroy al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Yazid ibn al-Muhallab is the 981st most popular military personnel (down from 974th in 2024). (down from 1,600th in 2019)