AbÅ«-TÄhir Al-JannÄbÄ«
Abu Tahir (Arabic أبو طاهر, DMG Abu Tahir; * 906, † 944 ) was the second leader of the Qarmatis in al- Hasa and Bahrain ( 923-944 ).
Life
Abu Tahir Sulayman ibn al -Hasan broke 923 the regency of his uncle al -Hasan ibn Sanbar from and succeeded his father al - Dschannabi ( 899-913 ) to. Right at the beginning of his reign the ceasefire was terminated with the Abbasids and Basra looted.
In the following years large parts of the Arabian Peninsula were conquered by the Qarmatis (Oman, Hadramaut ), and since 924 is interrupted by attacks on the pilgrim caravans in northern Arabia the pilgrimage route between Baghdad and Mecca. Also, Iraq was attacked, said Qarmatis 928 to advance to Baghdad, the city but could not conquer.
The largest "success" achieved the Qarmatis than this 930 during the pilgrimage season Mecca attacked and looted. Here also the Black Stone was stolen from the Kaaba and kidnapped by al - Hasa. After the Iranians Abu l -Fadl was 931 as the expected Mahdi occurred at the Qarmatis but soon murdered, it came to an abortive attack on the Persian Gulf coast in an approach to the Abbasids. This meant that the Qarmatis the raids einstellten since 937 on the pilgrim caravans and made to pay protection money to the safety of pilgrims.
Abu Tahir is the religion critical statement In this world, three individuals have cheated the people, a pastor, a doctor and a camel driver. And this camel driver is probably the worst of those three have been attributed. Some suspect him, therefore, to be the original author of the treatise De tribus impostoribus ( The three scammers ).
After the death of Abu Tahir ( 944 ) whose three brothers Abu l -Qasim Said, Abu al - Abbas al -Fadl and Abu Yaqub Yusuf took over the government in al - Hasa and Bahrain. However, the Dschannabi clan was largely weakened in the subsequent period by internal disputes, so that by 950 the missionary ( dai ) Sanbar ibn al -Hasan the most powerful man in Qarmatenstaat was. From this also the Black Stone of the Kaaba was 951 returned to Mecca.