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Malik ibn Dalham al-Kalbi (Arabic: مالك بن دلهم الكلبي) was a governor of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate, serving there for a part of 808.

Governorship

He was appointed to Egypt by the caliph Harun al-Rashid, and he arrived in the province to take up his position in early 808. Upon his entry the army commander Yahya ibn Mu'adh ibn Muslim ended his stay in the Hawf District, where he had been pacifying a rebellion that had broken out under Malik's predecessor al-Husayn ibn Jamil, and set up residence in the provincial capital of Fustat instead. After Yahya subsequently received orders to return to the caliphal court he wrote to the people of the Hawf, requesting that they present themselves to Malik in order to reach a settlement with the governor on issues on taxation. The heads of the local Yaman and Qays factions accordingly showed up for the meeting, but this proved to be a trap and they were instead seized, put in chains and sent as prisoners to the caliph.

Malik remained as governor until late 808, when he was dismissed and replaced with al-Hasan ibn al-Takhtakh.

Notes

1. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 144, has his full name as Malik ibn Dalham ibn Umayr ibn Malik. Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 141, substitutes Umayr with Isa.
2. Morimoto 1981, p. 155; Al-Kindi 1912, pp. 144–46; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, p. 137.
3. Al-Kindi 1912, p. 146; Ibn Taghribirdi 1930, pp. 137–38.

References

• Ibn Taghribirdi, Jamal al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf (1930). Nujum al-zahira fi muluk Misr wa'l-Qahira, Volume II (in Arabic). Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya.
• Al-Kindi, Muhammad ibn Yusuf (1912). Guest, Rhuvon (ed.). The Governors and Judges of Egypt (in Arabic). Leyden and London: E. J. Brill.
• Morimoto, Kosei (1981). The Fiscal Administration of Egypt in the Early Islamic Period. Kyoto: Dohosha. ISBN 9784810402124.

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