Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ba har zuwa farkon zamanin Abbasid cewa Tarsus, wanda a lokacin ya rushe, ya sake sakewa da sake sakewa, a wannan lokacin a matsayin ci gaba mai karfi a cikin yankin da ke da karfi na "al-ʿAwāṣim", wanda ya fito daga Tarsus arewa maso gabas zuwa Malatya, kuma a matsayin cibiyar taro don tafiye-tafiye da Daular Byzantine. Al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i ne ya yi ƙoƙari na farko a cikin 778/9, amma a bayyane yake ba shi da nasara, kuma ba a sake dawo da birnin ba har zuwa 787/8, ta Abu Sulaym Faraj bisa umarnin Khalifa Harun al-Rashid (). An ba da gidaje da filaye 3,000 na Khurasanis da Siriya 2,000 (dubu ɗaya daga Antakiya da al-Massisa) a cikin sabon birni mai ƙarfi. Tarsus a bayyane ya dawo da Byzantines ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, a wani lokaci a ƙarshen ƙarni. Wataƙila garin ya kasance a hannun Byzantine a lokacin yakin basasa na Abbasid na Fitna ta huɗu
, amma ya dawo karkashin ikon Musulmi a shekara ta 830, lokacin da Halifa al-Ma'mun () ya sake fara kamfen na kai farmaki kan Byzantium, ta amfani da garin a matsayin tushe.