Yezid 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 720 (taq) / 720 (ob.) |
| Variant Names | Moualabi |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Persia |
| 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) |
Shortly after Yezid II (Yezid 2) became caliph in 720, Yezid 3 (Yezid ibn al-Muhallab, Theophanes calls him "Izid Moualabi") rebelled against him in Persia (i.e. Iraq); the general Maslama 1 was sent against him, Yezid 3 was killed and Persia was subdued: Theoph. AM 6212, cf. Chron. 1234, ยง163 (p. 308) (
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