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{{Infobox dynasty|name=Muhallabid dynasty|native_name=المهلبيون|native_name_lang=ar|origin=[[Dibba]], [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]]<ref name="Wellhausen404">Wellhausen 1927, p. 404, note 1.</ref>|parent_family=[[Azd]]<ref name="Crone357">Crone 1993, p. 357.</ref>|country=[[Umayyad Caliphate]] and [[Abbasid Caliphate]]
*[[Ifriqiya]]
*[[Basra]]
*[[Ahwaz]]
*[[Greater Khorasan|Khurasan]]|founded=698|founder=[[Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra]]|deposition=812}}{{History of the Arab States}}
The '''Muhallabids''' ({{Langx|ar|المهلبيون}}) or the '''Muhallabid dynasty''' were an [[Arabs|Arab]] family who became prominent in the middle [[Umayyad Caliphate]] and reached its greatest eminence during the early [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasids]], when members of the family ruled [[Basra]] and [[Ifriqiya]].

The founders of the family's fortunes were [[al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra]] (c. 632 – 702) and his son [[Yazid ibn al-Muhallab]] (672–720), governor of Khurasan and [[Iraq]], who led an unsuccessful anti-[[Umayyad]] rebellion in Basra in 720. Despite his defeat and death, the family remained influential in their power base of Basra, and at the time of the [[Abbasid Revolution]] they rose up in their support. Despite the support of some Muhallabids to the abortive [[Alid]] revolt of [[Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya]], the new Abbasid regime rewarded their support with governorships at Basra and the [[Ahwaz]], but most prominently in [[Ifriqiya]], where the family ruled in uninterrupted succession from 768 to 795. Ifriqiya under their rule enjoyed a period of prosperity, above all agriculture was reinvigorated by the expansion of irrigation systems. The Muhallabids of Ifriqiya enjoyed a great deal of autonomy and were able to maintain [[Arabs|Arab]] rule in the face of revolts by the [[Berbers]]. They were unable however to prevent the formation of the kingdoms of the Arab [[Idrisid dynasty|Idrisids]] in [[Morocco]] and the Persian [[Rustamid dynasty|Rustamids]] in central [[Algeria]].

The family fell from power during and after the [[Fourth Fitna]] (fourth civil war), when the traditional Arab families began to be increasingly sidelined by Caliph [[al-Ma'mun]]'s Turkic and Iranian generals. One of the few members of the family who rose to prominence after that was [[Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Muhallabi]], the capable [[vizier]] of the 10th-century [[Buyid]] emir [[Mu'izz al-Dawla]].

==Sources==
{{Reflist}}
*{{Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition|volume=7|title=Muhallabids|last=Crone|first=P.|author-link=Patricia Crone|pages=358—360}}
*{{The Arab Kingdom and its Fall}}

==External links==
*{{Commonscatinline|Muhallabids}}

{{Muslim dynasties in Maghreb region}}

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