Thebit 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates744 (taq) / 744 (c.)
Variant NamesThabit;
T'byt
ReligionMuslim
EthnicityArab
LocationsGabitha (Gate of, Damascus) (deathplace);
Emesa (Syria);
Damascus;
Tiberias (Palaestina);
Sinai (Mt)
Textual SourcesChronicon 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 (T'byt br Nw`ym), who rebelled against the caliph Marwan II when the latter abandoned Damascus: Chron. 1234, ¤172 (p. 318). His rebellion was followed by that of al-Dahhak 1 at Seleucia-Ctesiphon: Chron. 1234, ¤174 (p. 319). Thebit 1 besieged Tiberias but was defeated and fled to Sinai with one of his sons (see Anonymi 30); they were captured and taken to Marwan 2 who first had them mutilated, and then crucified them at Damascus at the gate of Gabitha: Chron. 1234, ¤174 (p. 320).

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