Mu'awiya ibn Hisham [SEP] father
Mu'awiya ibn Hisham
Mu'awiya ibn Hisham () was an Arab general, the son of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 723–743), who distinguished himself in the Arab–Byzantine Wars. His son, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya, was the founder of the Emirate of Córdoba and the Umayyad line of al-Andalus.
Biography.
Mu'awiya was a son of Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik and Umm al-Hakim, a daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, an
Marwan, including members of the Umayyad family—notably Sulayman ibn Hisham—and even a few Abbasids. Nevertheless, in a short time Ibn Mu'awiya's forces suffered a decisive defeat by one of Ibn Hubayra's generals. Ibn Mu'awiya fled to Khurasan, where the leader of the Abbasid Revolution, Abu Muslim, had him executed, while Sulayman ibn Hisham and Mansur ibn Jumhur fled to India, where they remained until they died.
Khurasan and the Abbasid Revolution.
Khurasan, the northeasternmost province of the Caliphate, had