Ali 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Variant Names | Alim |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Textual Sources | Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Ali 2 was the father of Abdelas (Abdullah 5) and Salim (Sulayman 3): Theoph. AM 6241, AM 6246, Chron. 1234, §179 (p. 328), §180 (pp. 330-331), §181 (p. 333). He was therefore great-uncle of the first two caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty, as-Saffah 1 and al-Mansour 1.
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