Bashmurian revolts

Bashmurian revolts
Part of the persecution of Copts
Datec. 720 – 832
Location
Result Egyptian rebels defeated
Belligerents
Umayyad Caliphate
Abbasid Caliphate
Egyptian rebels
Commanders and leaders
749: Ḥawthara ibn Suhayl
767: Yazīd ibn Ḥātim
831–832: al-Afshīn
749: Mina, son of Apacyrus

Bashmurian[a] revolts (Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲧⲱⲟⲩⲛ Ⲙ̀ⲡⲓϣⲁⲙⲏⲣ; Arabic: ثورة البشموريين) were a series of revolts by the Egyptians in the Bashmur region in the north of the Nile Delta against the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates in the eighth and ninth centuries. Exactly how many revolts there were cannot be determined, but the major military conflicts took place in 749, 767 and 831–832.

The Bashmurian revolts are known from Coptic and Arabic sources. They did not become known in Europe until the early nineteenth century.[1] Both Coptic and Arabic sources attribute them to oppressive taxation and the unjust treatment of Christians by some Ummayad and Abbasid governors.[1][2]


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  1. ^ a b Feder 2017, pp. 33–35.
  2. ^ Megally 1991.