Alphadal 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 773 (taq) / 773 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1877 |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Textual Sources | 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) |
An Arab general, Alphadal Badinar (Alphadal 1) invaded the Roman empire in 773 and took five hundred prisoners; he was then attacked by men from Mopsuestia (οἱ δὲ Μομψουεστεῖς) and lost many of his troops: Theoph. AM 6264 . Perhaps his name was al-Fadl b. Dinar; see Mango and Scott, p. 616, n. 2.
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