Banu Thaqif

Umayyad governor and viceroy (c.661-714)

Umayyad Hijazi general and governor (695–715)

Pro-Alid Arab revolutionary (c.622–687)

Umayyad general and governor (died 686)

'''Abu Abd Allah al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba ibn Abi Amir ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi''' (); –671), was a prominent companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was known as one of the four 'shrewds of the Arabs' (duhat al-Arab). He belonged to the tribe of Thaqif of Ta'if, who were part of the early Islamic elite. He served as governor of Kufa, one of the two principal Arab garrisons and administrative centers of Iraq, under Caliph Umar in 642–645. In his old age, al-Mughira was again made governor of Kufa, serving under the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I from 661 until his death in 671. During his second go

arab Administrator, Governor and Statesman

8th-century Umayyad governor of Al-Andalus

Rashidun commander in Persia (died 634)

Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

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companion of Muhammad

Islamic scholar

8th-century Umayyad provincial governor

Umayyad general and statesman (died 692)

companion of the prophet

Arab physician

Arab poet and soldier (died c. 637)

umayyad Commander and statesman

Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 678/79–681

Banu Thaqif chieftain

umayyad governor Abd Allah ibn Amr

7th-century Umayyad governor of Kufa

umayyad General and governor in 680s

Governor of Ifriqiya

wife of Umayyad caliph Yazid II and al-Walid II's mother