Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i مطلب بن عبدالله بن مالك الخزاعي | |
Office1: | Abbasid Governor of Egypt (First term) |
Term Start1: | 813 |
Term End1: | 814 |
Office2: | Abbasid Governor of Egypt (Second term) |
Term Start2: | 814 |
Term End2: | 816 |
Birth Place: | Abbasid Caliphate |
Muttalib ibn Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i was a son of the Abbasid general and administrator Abdallah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i. During the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, he sided with the latter.
In 811, he administered the oath of allegiance (bay'ah) to al-Ma'mun for Mosul, and was named governor of Egypt briefly in 813 and again from 814 to 816. In 817, however, after al-Ma'mun chose the Alid Ali al-Rida as his heir, Muttalib joined the uprising in Baghdad against al-Ma'mun, and even administered the oath to the city's rival Caliph, Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi.