Bashmurian revolt
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Bashmurian revolt (Arabic ثورة البشموريين) (also Peshmurian revolt) was the revolt of the Coptic Christians living in the Al-Bashmur area in North Nile Delta against the Abbasids, which occurred around 832. The revolt (and others previous) were attributed to "oppressive taxation".[1]
The rebels expelled the state workers and raised the banner of rebellion refusing to pay tribute (special tax on non-Muslims called the jizya). Caliph Al-Ma'mun, who was visiting the province, put down the rebellion, arresting and killing large numbers of Copts and their dependants. According to historian Ira M. Lapidus, the crushing of the rebellion was followed by "despair" among the Copts and mass conversions to Islam, which rendered the ex-Copts exempt from Jizyah tax.[2][3]
References
- Muhammad ibn Iyas, Bada'I al-Zuhur fi Waqa'I al-Duhur.
- Aziz Suryal Atiya, The Coptic Encyclopedia.
- Al-Maqrizi, Historia Regum Islamiticorum in Abyssinia (ed. and Latin trans. F. T. Rink, Leiden, 1790).
- Severus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria.
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