Stelle …Sicque intestino ob hanc rem furor...; (Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 2020), Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §74 (p. 377)) [5727]

Basic Information
Keywords
ID 5727
Text Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 754) Anonymous - History
Quotation …Sicque intestino ob hanc rem furore preuentus, quinquennion tummultuose uiuens et diuersa prelia exercens, a Zali patruum de Abdella, quem sibi quam plurima Ismahelitarum multitudo elegerat principem, a Damasco usque in campis Babilonicis persecutis, Nilo transacto, reiacet decollatus.
Translation …And thus his reign was dominated by internal uproar on account of this matter, as he lived through a tumultuous period of five years and waged various battles. He was then pursued by Zali an uncle of Abdella, whom the majority of the Ismahelites had chosen as princeps for themselves, from Damascus all the way into the Babylonian plains and was then beheaded after crossing the Nile. (Al-Tamimi, trans., “The Mozarabic Chronicle”, 2019)
Summary Here the chronicle recounts how the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II,was pursued and beheaded by Zali, the uncle of Abu al-Abbas Abdullah al-Saffah, the first Abbasid caliph.
Quotation source Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §74 (p. 377)
Temporal Coverage 744 - 750
Associated use case(s)
Spatial Coverage Objects
Comment