Ziyad 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VII |
| Dates | 686 (taq) / 687 (ob.) |
| Variant Names | Ziados; Zyd |
| 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) |
Ziyad 1 was a brother of Mu`awiya 1, sent by Abdulmalik 1 in 686/687 to Persia against al-Mukhtar 1, who killed him in battle: Theoph. AM 6178 (Ζίαδον, τὸν ἀδελφὸν Μαυΐου) (but see Mango and Scott, Theophanes, p. 507, n. 2, where he is identified as `Ubaid Allah b. Ziyad, his nephew, not his brother), Chron. 1234, §147 (p. 292).
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