Salih 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 770 (taq) / 770 (ob.) |
| Variant Names | Salech |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Syria; Syria (officeplace); Syria (deathplace) |
| 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) |
Salih 1 was called Salech by Theophanes, who records his death under the year 770, together with the transfer of (the population of) Germanikeia to Palestine: Theoph. AM 6262 (τελευτᾷ δὲ ὁ Σάλεχ, καὶ μετεποιήθη Γερμανίκεια εἰς Παλαιστίνην). He was Salih ibn Ali, governor of Northern Syria under al-Mansour 1. See Encyclopaedia of Islam VIII, p. 985.
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