Marwan ibn Abd al-Malik

Marwān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān (Arabic: مروان بن عبد الملك بن مروان) (d. 715/16 or 716/17), referred to as Marwān al-Akbar (Arabic: مروان الأكبر, lit.'Marwan the Elder') to distinguish him from his younger half-brother with the same name, was an Umayyad prince, son of Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, (r.685–705) and one-time heir to the caliphate.

Marwan ibn Abd al-Malik
مروان بن عبد الملك
Heir presumptive of the Umayyad Caliphate
Tenure705–715
BornMedina, Umayyad Caliphate
Died716 or 717
al-Sham, Umayyad Caliphate
Burial
al-Sham
RelativesAl-Walid I (brother)
Sulayman (brother)
Names
Marwan ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
DynastyUmayyad
FatherAbd al-Malik
MotherWallada bint al-Abbas ibn al-Jaz al-Absiyya
ReligionIslam

Life

Marwan was a son of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and his first wife Wallada bint al-Abbas ibn al-Jaz, a member of the Banu Abs tribe and fourth-generation descendant of Zuhayr ibn Jadhima. Marwan was a full brother of the caliphs al-Walid I (r.705–715) and Sulayman (r.715–717).[1] According to the 10th-century historian al-Tabari, Abd al-Malik instructed his immediate chosen successors al-Walid and Sulayman to invest the succession after them to their half-brother Yazid II (son of Atika bint Yazid) and then to Marwan al-Akbar.[2] According to al-Baladhuri, however, it was to be passed to Marwan al-Asghar (another son of Atika).[2] Marwan al-Akbar died on his return to Syria from the Hajj in Mecca in 715/16 or 716/17.[3] He left no children.[1] After his death, Caliph Sulayman maneuvered to remove Yazid II from the succession and install his own son Ayyub, but the latter predeceased Sulayman.

References

  1. Hinds 1990, p. 118.
  2. Bosworth 1982, p. 92, note 6.
  3. Bosworth 1982, p. 92.

Bibliography

  • Bosworth, C. E. (1982). Medieval Arabic Culture and Administration. Variorum Reprints. ISBN 0-86078-113-5.
  • Hinds, Martin, ed. (1990). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXIII: The Zenith of the Marwānid House: The Last Years of ʿAbd al-Malik and the Caliphate of al-Walīd, A.D. 700–715/A.H. 81–95. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-721-1.
  • Powers, David S., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXIV: The Empire in Transition: The Caliphates of Sulaymān, ʿUmar, and Yazīd, A.D. 715–724/A.H. 96–105. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0072-2.
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