al-Zubayr 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 716 (taq) / 716 (tpq) |
| Variant Names | Zouber |
| 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) |
Al-Zoubayr 2 was an Arab (Σαρακηνῶν) cavalryman outside Amorion in 716; he was one of three thousand cavalry sent by Sulayman 1 to try to capture Leo 3; when Leo 3 saw what was happening, it was al-Zoubayr 2 who tried to explain away their presence: Theoph. AM 6208 (εἷς ἐξ αὐτῶν καβαλλάριος ὀνόματι Ζοῦβερ).
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