Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab

Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab (born 672—died 720, Wāsiṭ, Iraq) was a provincial governor in the service of several caliphs of the Umayyad dynasty. In the first years of the 8th century Yazīd became governor of Khorāsān. He soon came into conflict with the powerful governor of Iraq, al-Ḥajjāj, at whose instigation the caliph, al-Walīd, had Yazīd jailed. In 708 Yazīd managed to escape, fleeing to the protection of Sulaymān, al-Walīd’s brother. When in 715 Sulaymān himself...