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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3007011, member: 84744&quot;]Looks like a difficult-to-photograph beauty, Ed!&nbsp; I&#039;d love to have one of Ziyad&#039;s son, who was another very important figure... definitely on the want list.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my notes on Ziyad: </p><p>Ziyad was also called &#039;ibn Abih&#039; (son of his father) because his parentage was uncertain.&nbsp; If his father was indeed Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, then he descended from a leader of the Quraysh in Mecca, who opposed Muhammad until a few years before the latter&#039;s death, when it became clear that the Islamic faction would triumph.&nbsp; After Muhammad&#039;s conquest of Mecca, Abu Sufyan fought as an Islamic general.&nbsp; (Presumably he converted to Islam.)&nbsp; His son, Mu&#039;awiyah, eventually won a civil war and established the Umayyad caliphate.</p><p>[Me: this parentage seems unlikely.&nbsp; Ziyad only began using the name b. Abu Sufyan after reconciling with Mu&#039;awiyah, who accepted him as a &quot;brother.&quot;)</p><p>Ziyad, was born in AH 1 and converted under the first Caliph, Abu Bakr (632-34).&nbsp; He initially fought to suppress rebels under &#039;Ali, but with the success of the Umayyads was persuaded to switch sides and became governor of Basra.&nbsp; He subsequently suppressed an Aliid rebellion in Kufa. and added that city to his governorship.</p><p><br /></p><p>On this coin: This (AH50) is the year in which Ziyad suppressed the Aliid rebellion in Kufa and added that city to his governorship.&nbsp; In 671, Ziyad sent 50,000 troops to Merv, which formed the nucleus of Islamic Khorasan, the basis for the eventual subjection of territories in central Asia.&nbsp; It is plausible that the turco-hephthalite countermarks resulted from the coin&#039;s circulation in this area after being taken near there by Ziyad&#039;s troops.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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