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[vuxmurcltrr qrlnxeyub) nor has ho hml
>elllcu nreiw c:ome out of tins venture, if tin* rumours were •
ucl With * sinuln fonrcM ..r Rovcrnor Urn true.101
because you 1 IlyM uro an upright man (yan\r) he ha* The revolt of Mohammed ’OgmAn was fol-'J
coinc with Ml hU tribes mul people anil submitted to you.
placing tru.nl in your sense of justice ( adatcl) and mnnli- lowed by two years of tumultuous rule by the 1
not* (lecd'at). You also have written of his Hubmisaion governor general Ahmed Bey who made himselT
and suggest that he be given his brother’s (larlnrblfinln) unpopular with the people and the garrison alika*]
district. and in 15S0 was overthrown, earning the dubious^
(reply] Give him tho district. In addition, set aside forty honor of being the only gubernatorial victim of a£
atf* (a week?) for the brother from the LahsA treasury." garrison revolt in Ottoman Lab&Vs history.
year later, perhaps taking advantage of this con3
Only a few months after this, the Imperial
fusion, Sa’dQn once again revolted, carrying hi^
Council received word from Bagdad that Sa'dQn
people against the fortress in LahsA. -*Vfter a shorf
was there with his people attempting to collect seige of the fort he was defeated. Investigation^
supplies; Bagdad was ordered to remind him
that his salary (sdlydru) was payable only on the afterwards again implicated certain officers of thet
garrison. Sa’dQn was not caught, and this time,
condition that he remain in L&bsS.9’
there was not even the useless formality t&keit
Sa’dQn was in fact being paid to keep the peace
of stripping him of his district.172 '%
among the tribes of Eastern Arabia and prevent
The Ottoman forces must have been in miser*
raids on the province. Since this coincided with
able condition after two years of Ahmed's rulej
his own aim of paramountcy among those tribes,
and two serious desert rebellions, with inspector^
both sides were reasonably content with the
and investigators from Istanbul in Lab^fi follow-j
arrangement. At least once, Sa’dQn clearly proved
ing each incident, questioning and accusing, with
his worth. In 1578 Mubammed [ibn?l ’0gm5n,
several high-ranking officers cast in prison for
district officer [of the Desert?] in Basra, revolted
conspiracy. The new governor general could onl^
and gathered tribes to his support. Among these
hope that Sa’dQn would not attack again until
tribes were the BanI Lam and Cebel §emmilr
his own forces were in order and if possible rein-*’
[sic]. He led his forces south and plundered the
forced. The late spring of 1584 brought thousands'
'Araa’ir ‘‘of al-bCatlf”, a branch of the BanI
of BanI Ualid horsemen in to Labsa for the date
JJalid, then declared his intention of taking over
season (J^urma zamanlnda) and the governor
LabsS, “. . . which belonged to him of old.”*9
general, nervously expecting trouble, requested,
Sa'dQn led a force out pursuing him into the
400 additional troops from Bagdad, 200 of them
desert, and when the ’A1 Mas'am [?] district
musketeers; they would be needed, he assured-
officer Muhenna b. tjalid [BanI 05lid?] came to
Istanbul, only for three months. The decision on.*
help Sa'dun, the Cebel Semmer and BanI Lam
this request was taken by Sultan Murad III-
deserted to Muhenna and the whole force plun­
dered Mubammed 'OgmSn’s camp. 100 himself (bd humdi/un); “. . . a campaign is
in progress [against the Safavids] and at such a I
Mubammed 'Ogman was not captured how­
ever and remained actively at large. A little later i -
in the same year rumours reached Basra that he 1,1 M 35:723, n.d. (2nd half 9S6/late 157S, early 1579)*
Ibn BLshr refenj to a campaign into Eastern ArabU :
had made an alliance with Ibn Abu Nu’may, the
undertaken by the Sherif in 1531. Following the cam-
Serif of Mekke, and intended the seizure of both i
paign the Sherif returned to Mecca, leaving behind aa a
Labsfi and Basra; but nothing seems to have his representative a certain Mubammed b. 'OimAQ
b.Fazl, . . . min bainya na*f auttdmtihim,>, the affixed
pronoun referring to the local leadership. His clan, =
V, ’’ M„Zeyli 3- P 13°. 22 Safer 983/2 June 1575. See aleo however, is not named. As quoted in ‘Ibrihlm b. $Alib
M Zeyli 2: p. 273, n.d. (983/1574-75). b. IsA, Ta 6a z al-havddil al~vdJcx a fl Need, Riyadh*
* See above p 502 f. 1965, p. 48 o.l. .)
;«7ni5:692' n'd' (2nd hlUf to*/1** 1578, early 1579). *** M 52:1002, n.d. (991/1583). For the revolt against
* Ibxd.
Ahmed see below p. 612.

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