Thebit 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VIII |
Dates | 744 (taq) / 744 (c.) |
Variant Names | Thabit; T'byt |
Religion | Muslim |
Ethnicity | Arab |
Locations | Gabitha (Gate of, Damascus) (deathplace); Emesa (Syria); Damascus; Tiberias (Palaestina); Sinai (Mt) |
Textual Sources | 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) |
Thebit 1 (Thabit b. Nu`aim) rebelled against the caliph Marwan II (Marwan 2) together with Dachak (al-Dahhak 1); they were defeated and killed with heavy losses by Marwan 2 near Emesa (this in fact is true only of al-Dahhak 1): Theoph. AM 6236. The rebellion was apparently in 744.
Thebit 1 is Thabit, son of Nu`aym (
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