Al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim
{{short description|Abbasid Vizier and Official (931–932)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim
الحسين بن القاسم
| image = File:Dinar of al-Muqtadir with Abu'l-Abbas and Amid al-Dawla.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| alt =
| caption = Gold dinar of al-Muqtadir with the names of his heir, Abu 'l-Abbas, and vizier, Amid al-Dawla
| other_names = {{plainlist|
- Ibn al-Qasim
- Amid al-Dawla (title)
}}
| father = Al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah
| mother =
| children =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Abbasid Caliphate
| death_date =
| death_place = Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
| occupation = Abbasid vizier and official
| years_active = September 931 – May 932
(under al-Muqtadir)
| relatives = Muhammad ibn al-Qasim (brother)
}}
Al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim ({{Langx|ar|الحسين بن القاسم}}) was a senior official of the Abbasid Caliphate who served as vizier from September 931 until May 932.
Life
Hailing from the Banu Wahb, a family of Nestorian Christian origin that had served in the caliphal bureaucracy since late Umayyad times, al-Husayn was the son, grandson and great-grandson of viziers.{{sfn|Bosworth|2002|pp=33–34}} The family however had lost power after the death of al-Husayn's father al-Qasim in 904.{{sfn|Bosworth|2002|p=33}}
He was appointed to the vizierate and the title of Amid al-Dawla ("Mainstay/Pillar of the State") by Caliph al-Muqtadir ({{reign|908|932}}) in September 931, with the support of the Banu'l-Furat faction against the rival faction around Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah and the commander-in-chief Mu'nis al-Muzaffar.{{sfn|Bosworth|2002|p=33}}{{sfn|Bowen|1928|p=311}} He quickly managed to win over Mu'nis' proteges, the chamberlain Muhammad ibn Ra'iq and his brother Ibrahim, and began plotting against Mu'nis.{{sfn|Bowen|1928|pp=311–312}} The latter tried to secure his dismissal from the caliph, and almost succeeded; it was only his demand that al-Husayn be exiled to Oman that made al-Muqtadir oppose it. At the same time, al-Husayn felt so threatened by the powerful general that he slept in a different house each night to prevent his arrest.{{sfn|Bowen|1928|p=312}}
According to the scholar C.E. Bosworth, al-Husayn was "perhaps the last vizier to attempt to retain for the vizierate a measure of its former independence". He tried to restore the state finances, but fell from power due to the incessant court rivalries in May 932.{{sfn|Bosworth|2002|p=33}}
References
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Sources
- {{EI2 | volume=11 | last = Bosworth | first = C.E. | authorlink = Clifford Edmund Bosworth | article = Wahb | pages = 33–34}}
- {{cite book | first = Harold | last = Bowen | title = The Life and Times of ʿAlí Ibn ʿÍsà, ‘The Good Vizier’ | year = 1928 | location = Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press | url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80474 | oclc = 982525160 }}
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{{s-bef|before=Ubayd Allah al-Kalwadhani}}
{{s-ttl|title=Vizier of the Abbasid Caliphate|years=September 931 – May 932}}
{{s-aft|after=Al-Fadl ibn Ja'far ibn al-Furat}}
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Category:Viziers of the Abbasid Caliphate
Category:10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate