Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ba har zuwa farkon zamanin Abbasid cewa Tarsus, a lokacin da yake cikin kango, an sake sake shi kuma an sake gina shi, a wannan lokacin a matsayin ci gaba mai ƙarfi a cikin yankin da aka keɓe na "al-ʿAwāṣim", wanda ya miƙa daga Tarsus arewa maso gabas zuwa Malatya, kuma a matsayin cibiyar taro don tafiye-tafiye a kan 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.
Fitna ta huɗu, amma ta dawo ƙarƙashin ikon Musulmai ta 830, lokacin da Halifa al-Ma'mun () ya sake fara yaƙe-yaƙe a kan Byzantium, ta amfani da garin a matsayin tushe.