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Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi (Arabic: الْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد الثَّقَفِيّ, romanized: al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī; c. 622 – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq ...
Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd Al-Thaqafi (en árabe: ٱلْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد ٱلثَّقَفِيّ : , al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafīy; c. 622 – 3 de abril de 687) fue un revolucionario pro-alide basado en Kufa, quien dirigió una rebelión contra el califato omeya en 685 y gobernó sobre la mayor ...
al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī (born c. 622 ce, al-Ṭaʾif, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died March 687, Kūfah, Iraq) was a Shīʿite Muslim leader who in 686 championed the unenthusiastic Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, a son of ʿAlī (the fourth caliph in Islam), as leader of the Islamic community in opposition to the Umayyad ...
Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi-Ubayd ath-Thaqafí (en àrab al-Muẖtār b. Abī ʿUbayd aṯ-Ṯaqafī) (622-687) fou un revolucionari proàlida que durant la Segona fitna va dominar Kufa del 685 al 687 nominalment en nom de Muhàmmad ibn al-Hanafiyya, fill d'Alí ibn Abi-Tàlib. Pertanyia a un clan dels Ahlaf Thaqif.
Mukhtarnama is a television series on the life and uprising of al-Mukhtar b. Abi 'Ubayd al-Thaqafi, directed by Davud Mir Baghiri and broadcasted on the Islamic Republic of Iran's state television in forty episodes of sixty minutes.
Mukhtar b. Abi ˓Ubayd al-Thaqafi took over Kufa (in Iraq) for a year and a half during the Second Civil War ( fitna, set off by the murder of Husayn in 680), as the Zubayrids and Marwanids struggled for control of the empire in succession to the Sufyanid branch of the Umayyad caliphs.
Few individuals throughout Islamic history appear as colourful, as controversial, or as genuine as al-Mukhtar ibn Abi ‘Ubaydah al-Thaqafi. Spanning three volumes of Tarikh al-Tabari, Mukhtar’s exploits included wresting Iraq from the Umayyids, uplifting the underprivileged and exacting vengeance on the killers of Imam Husayn ibn ‘Ali.
