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Dawud ibn Ali al-Hashimi (Arabic: داود بن علي الهاشمي) was an eighth century Abbasid personage. Who served as the first governor of Medina and Mecca in 750 for the Abbasid Caliphate.

Life

Al-Hashimi was the son of Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas. He was a paternal uncle of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah (r. 750–754) and al-Mansur (r. 754–775), making him one of the "uncles" ('umumah) that held a high degree of influence during the early years following the Abbasid Revolution.

His nephew, caliph al-Saffah appointed him governor of Medina and Mecca in 750, however he died in the office that same year he was succeeded by Ziyad ibn Ubaydallah the maternal uncle of al-Saffah. who appointed him in 750.

Sources

1. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 27: pp. 195-96; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 413.
2. Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 27: pp. 196-97, 204, 208; v. 28: pp. 6, 46, 53, 58, 61, 74-75; Crone 1980, p. 149; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, pp. 413, 430

• Crone, Patricia (1980). Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52940-9.
• Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1985). al-Umari, Akram Diya' (ed.). Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat (in Arabic) (3rd ed.). Al-Riyadh: Dar Taybah.
• Yarshater, Ehsan, ed. (1985–2007). The History of al-Ṭabarī (40 vols). SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7249-1.

• 730s births
• 750 deaths
• 8th-century Arab people
• 8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
• Abbasids
• Abbasid governors of Mecca
• Abbasid governors of Medina
• Governors of the Abbasid Caliphate