Khalid al-Qasri

Khalid al - Qasrī, full name is Khalid ibn ʿ Abd al - Qasrī (Arabic: خالد بن عبد الله القصري, DMG Halid ibn ʿ Abd al - Qaṣrī † 743/44 ) was the Umayyad as governor, first in Mecca and later, during the caliphate Hisham ibn ʿ Abd al-Malik from, Iraq.

Khalid was one of the Qasr, a clan of the Arab tribe Badschīla, and had a Christian mother. The caliph ʿ Abd al -Malik sent him as governor of Mecca. In this office he carried out various reforms of the pilgrimage ritual. So he decreed that henceforth the tawaf men and women were separated. To monitor this segregation guards were stationed at each column, which were equipped with whips.

Caused a sensation in his arrest of the Sa ʿ ibn Jubayr īd on behalf of al - Hajjaj ibn Yūsuf, who had him executed after being transferred to Iraq. Sa ʿ ibn Jubayr īd had played a leading role in mobilizing the Quran readers in the uprising of Ibn al - ʿ ath Asch ( 699-701 ) and was subsequently fled to the Haram to Mecca, who acted as an asylum. His delivery by Khalid was seen in religious circles as a serious Unrechtstat.

After his dismissal by the governor posts in Mecca, which probably took place after the reign of Sulaiman ibn inaugural Abd al- Malik, Khalid was briefly as an envoy for the Caliph Yazid II in use. Around the year 724 Hisham ibn ʿ Abd al-Malik put him as governor in Iraq, where there were at that time strong tensions between the tribes of Mudar and Yaman. That Hisham chose him for this office, probably had to do with the fact that Khalid belonged to a tribe that did not belong to the two groups, and thus could act as a mediator. However, Khalid was soon pulled himself into the clashes between the two groups because the Mudar began to fight him.

About his governorship in Iraq little else is known, but his name appears in the second half of the 730er years in connection with the suppression of various heretical movements. Among the heretics, which he is said to have executed, were Dascha ʿ d ibn Dirham and the Shiite al - Mughira ibn Sa ʿ īd. He had obviously but also a little afraid to offend Muslims. So he built next to the main mosque of Kufa, a church for his Christian mother and expressed publicly that Christianity is better than Islam. Also, he did not hesitate to prefer at the offices awarding Zoroastrians and Christians.

As a result of which it carries out agrarian reform its tax revenues rose disproportionately, this should have caused the jealousy of Hisham. This was after the Arab sources, the real reason for his dismissal in the year 738, after which he was imprisoned for some time. Released, Khalid spent some time at the court of Hisham in ar - Rusafa and in Damascus. After the accession to power of al- Walid II, he was tortured by his governor in Iraq, Yūsuf ibn ʿ Umar ath - Thaqafi, to death.