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...

including Sulayman ibn Surad and Mukhtar al-Thaqafi who rallied for his revenge in Iraq, and the second by Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr. The roots of the civil...

quiescent, al-Sajjad had few followers until late in his life for many Shia Muslims were initially drawn to the anti-Umayyad movement of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Ali...

Husayn, many recognized Ibn al-Hanafiyya as the head of the House of Ali. Claiming to represent Ibn al-Hanafiyya, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi rose in Iraq in 686 to...

Ali (r. 656–661) and later served the pro-Alid leader al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. He led al-Mukhtar's forces to a decisive victory at the Battle of Khazir (686)...

Umayyad-held Palestine. He defeated and killed the pro-Alid revolutionary Mukhtar al-Thaqafi after a series of battles in 687, gaining control over all of Iraq...

Mas'ūd ibn 'Amr ibn 'Umayr ibn 'Awf ibn Uqda ibn Ghayra ibn Awf ibn Thaqif al-Thaqafi (Arabic: أبو عبيد بن مسعود بن عمرو بن عمير بن عوف بن عقدة بن غيرة بن عوف...

death of Husayn; the first one by the Tawwabin and the other one by Mukhtar al-Thaqafi and his supporters. The Battle of Karbala galvanized the development...

Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas and great-grandson of al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, the uncle of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. When al-Mukhtar announced the...

ibn Mutī' al-'Adawī (685). However, later al-Sha'bi along with his father changing allegiance to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. During this period, al-Sha'bi regularly...

towards Ahl al-Bayt.[clarification needed] Hani is buried behind the Great Mosque of Kufa, Kufa, Iraq, alongside Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Ja'far al-Sadiq Ali...

martyrdom of Husayn; the first one by the Tawwabin and the other one by Mukhtar al-Thaqafi and his supporters. The Battle of Karbala galvanized the development...

Second Islamic Civil War (Second Fitna). His wife was the sister to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who ruled Iraq from 685 to 687, during the Second Fitna. He had five...

appear in the late 7th century, when the revolutionary Mukhtar al-Thaqafi declared Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya, a son of Caliph Ali (r. 656–661), to be the...

Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr, the governor of Basra on behalf of his brother Caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr (r. 683–692), and Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, the pro-Alid...

and source of motivation for the later more successful movement of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. The first Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya's designation of his son Yazid...

child's throat. He was later captured and killed by the forces of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Mukhtar attack knife on neck of hurmala and kill him.[citation needed]...

suppression of the Arab nobility of Kufa by the pro-Alid leader al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi in 686, Muhammad, who at the time was residing in one of his fortresses...

of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, and the Mecca-based caliphate of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr. It ended in a rout for the Umayyads and the expansion of Mukhtar's rule...

Allah Ibn al-Zubayr and the Kufan strongman al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who afterward took up the cause of the Alid family. He declared Ibn al-Hanafiyya caliph...

pro-Alid leader al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi in August 685.[citation needed] He was a military commander against the Umayyads at the battle of al-Harra and the...

but was defeated and killed in Battle of Ayn al-Warda. After the failed uprising, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi once again called for the establishment of an Alid...

mountain Jabal al-Nour in Saudi Arabia - the place where the first verses of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad Mukhtar al-Thaqafi Bayt al-Ahzan Holiest...

at the battle of al-Harra, Abd Allah ibn Muti, who played a leading role in Mecca's defense along with al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Ibn al-Zubayr was also joined...

successful Zubayrid campaign to eliminate the Kufa-based ruler al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi in 686/87. After this victory, he was transferred to the governorship...

fighters. On the other hand, Ibrahim ibn Malik al-Ashtar, the son of Malik al-Ashtar, along with Mukhtar al-Thaqafi rose against the killers of Hussain ibn Ali...

10 Dhu al-Hijjah: Eid al-Adha. Days considered important predominantly for Shia Muslims: 9 Rabi' al-Awwal: Omar Koshan (Mukhtar al-Thaqafi avenges the...

became a leader of the mawālī faction in the pro-Alid movement of al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi (685–687 CE), serving as the head of the latter's personal guard...

and sent him to al-Tamura, a fearful prison underground, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi was in the same prison with Maytham. Maytham and Mukhtar would hold conversations...

Husayn bin Ali Muslim ibn Aqeel Mukhtar al-Thaqafi Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi Abu Hanifa Sufyan al-Thawri Alqama ibn Qays Dawud al-Zahiri Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud...