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Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Sari (Arabic: أبو نصر بن السري) (died January 822) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, from 820 until his death.

Career

Abu Nasr was the son of al-Sari ibn al-Hakam, the governor of Egypt in 816 and 817–820, and he inherited that position upon the latter's death in November 820. During his governorship Egypt remained divided among the various factions that had seized control in the midst of the power vacuum created during the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, and Abu Nasr's actual authority was mainly limited to the southern portion of the province, while much of Lower Egypt was in the hands of Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Jarawi, the son of al-Sari's former rival Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Wazir al-Jarawi.

Following Abu Nasr's appointment he and al-Jarawi continued their fathers' rivalry in an effort to gain mastery over the country. Two battles fought at Shatnuf and Damanhur reportedly left at least seven thousand dead and ended in losses for Abu Nasr's forces under the command of his brother Ahmad. Al-Jarawi's men subsequently advanced to the capital Fustat and threatened to burn the city, but after receiving an appeal from its residents al-Jarawi was convinced to make peace instead.

Abu Nasr died in 822 after a term of fourteen months in office and was succeeded by his brother Ubaydallah ibn al-Sari.

Notes

1. ^ Al-Kindi 1912, p. 172.
2. ^ Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 178.
3. Kennedy 1998, pp. 80–81.
4. Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 172–73.
5. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 173.

References

• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
• Kennedy, Hugh (1998). "Egypt as a province in the Islamic caliphate, 641–868". In Petry, Carl F. (ed.). Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume One: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 62–85. ISBN 0-521-47137-0.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.

• 822 deaths
• 9th-century Abbasid governors of Egypt
• 9th-century Arab people