Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

For the Umayyad conqueror of Sind, see Muḥammad b. al-Ḳāsim al-Thaḳafī.

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim was an official of the Abbasid Caliphate who served briefly as vizier in July–October 933 under Caliph al-Qahir (r. 932–934). He hailed from a family of Nestorian Christian origin that had served in the caliphal bureaucracy since late Umayyad times, and was the son, grandson, great-grandson and brother of viziers.

Sources

Bosworth, C.E. (2002). "Wahb". The Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume XI: W–Z. Leiden and New York: BRILL. pp. 33–34. ISBN 90-04-12756-9.

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