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Yazīd ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Arabic: يزيد بن هشام بن عبد الملك), commonly known as al-Afqam (fl. 738 – c. 744), was an Umayyad prince who played military and political roles during the reign of his father, Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, and during the reigns of his own cousins, caliphs al-Walid II and Yazid III.

Life

Yazid was the son of the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743) and his favored wife Umm Hakim, the daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, brother of Hisham's grandfather Caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685). He was nicknamed "al-Afqam".

He may have led the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 738, though other accounts hold it was his brother Sulayman, and led it again in 741. He was imprisoned by Caliph al-Walid II soon after his accession in late 743. Al-Walid was assassinated in 744 and Yazid was the first to give the oath of allegiance to the usurping caliph Yazid III.

References

1. Kilpatrick 2003, pp. 72, 82.
2. ^ Hillenbrand 1989, p. 65, note 356.
3. Blankinship 1989, p. 194.
4. Hillenbrand 1989, p. 128.
5. Hillenbrand 1989, p. 195.

Bibliography

• Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXV: The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishām, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-569-9.
• Hillenbrand, Carole, ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXVI: The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate: Prelude to Revolution, A.D. 738–744/A.H. 121–126. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-810-2.
• Kilpatrick, Hilary (2003). Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī's Kitāb al-Aghānī. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700717019. OCLC 50810677.

• 8th-century Arab people
• Sons of Umayyad caliphs
• Prisoners and detainees of the Umayyad Caliphate
• People of the Third Fitna