Qahtaba 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 749 (taq) / 749 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 1061 |
| Variant Names | Chaktaban |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Khorosan |
| 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) |
Qahtaba 1 was an Arab leader in Khorasan who joined Abu Muslim 1 in the revolt against the Umayyads and won major victories over the Umayyad generals Ibindara (Ibn Dubara 1) and Ibinoueera (Ibn Hubayra 1): Theoph. AM 6240. His name was Qahtaba ibn Shabib and he died in 749 after his last victory: Encyclopaedia of Islam., 2nd ed., IV, pp. 445-447.
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