Bakthari 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates716 (taq) / 716 (tpq)
PmbZ No.736
Variant NamesBktry;
Bakcharos;
Bakhthari
ReligionMuslim
EthnicityArab
LocationsAmorion (Galatia)
Textual SourcesAgapius, Kitab al-`Unwan. Histoire universelle écrite par Agapius (Mahboub) de Menbidj, tr. A. A. Vasiliev, PO 8 (1912), pp. 399-547; ed. L. Cheikho, Historia universalis/Kitab al-`Unvan, CSCO 65, (history);
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)

Bakthari 1 is called "Bakcharos" in Theophanes and "Bktry" in Chron. 1234. Bakthari 1 and Sulayman 1 were given command of the Arab land forces sent in 716 as part of the expedition against Constantinople under Maslama 1; near Amorion they encountered Leo 3 who told them that he opposed the emperor Theodosios III (Theodosios 2) and would help them to seize Constantinople; they told Maslama 1, who for a time based his strategy on this information: Theoph. AM 6208, Chron. 1234, §157 (p. 301), cf. Agapius, Kitab al-`Unwan (tr. Vasiliev), PO 8, pp. 501-2 (Sulayman ibn Ma`adh and Bakhthari ibn al-Hasan commanded the avantguard of Maslama 1 over land; Sulayman 1 met Leo 3 and, convinced by his promises of help, introduced him to Maslama 1).

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