Yazid al-Afqam

Yazid al-Afqam يزيد الأفقم
Died	c. 744/46
Names Yazid ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik al-Afqam
House	Marwanid
Dynasty	Umayyad
Father	Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Mother	Umm Hakim bint Yahya
Religion	Islam
Occupation	Umayyad courtier, politician and Military leader
Military career
Allegiance	Umayyad Caliphate
Rank	Commander
Battles / wars	Arab–Byzantine wars
Relations	Al-Walid II (cousin) Yazid III (cousin) Maslama (brother) Mu'awiya (brother) Sulayman (brother)

Yazīd ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Arabic: يزيد بن هشام بن عبد الملك), commonly known as al-Afqam (fl. 738 – c. 744), was an Umayyad prince who played military and political roles during the reign of his father, Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, and during the reigns of his own cousins, caliphs al-Walid II and Yazid III.

Life

Yazid was the son of the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743) and his favored wife Umm Hakim, the daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, brother of Hisham's grandfather Caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685).[1] He was nicknamed "al-Afqam".[2]

He may have led the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 738, though other accounts hold it was his brother Sulayman,[3] and led it again in 741.[2] He was imprisoned by Caliph al-Walid II soon after his accession in late 743.[4] Al-Walid was assassinated in 744 and Yazid was the first to give the oath of allegiance to the usurping caliph Yazid III.[5]

References

1. Kilpatrick 2003, pp. 72, 82.
2. Hillenbrand 1989, p. 65, note 356.
3. Blankinship 1989, p. 194.
4. Hillenbrand 1989, p. 128.
5. Hillenbrand 1989, p. 195.

Bibliography

• Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXV: The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishām, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-569-9.
• Hillenbrand, Carole, ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXVI: The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate: Prelude to Revolution, A.D. 738–744/A.H. 121–126. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-810-2.
• Kilpatrick, Hilary (2003). Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī's Kitāb al-Aghānī. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700717019. OCLC 50810677.