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Abu Ya'fur ibn Alqama

Eleventh Lakhmid king (503–505)

Summary

Eleventh Lakhmid king (503–505)

Field	Value
name	Abu Ya'fur ibn Alqama
image	LakhmidsVassal.png
title	King of the Lakhmid state
reign	CE 503–505
predecessor	Al-Nu'man II
successor	Al-Mundhir III
royal house	Lakhmids
birth_date
death_date	August
death_place	near Circesium, modern-day Syria

Abu Ya'fur ibn Alqama ibn Malik ibn Uday ibn Dhumayl ibn Thawr ibn Asis ibn Ruba ibn Namara ibn Lakhm () was a Lakhmid general who governed al-Hirah for some years after the death of al-Nu'man II ibn al-Aswad in 503.

Abu Ya'fur was of the Dhumayl, a noble family of Lakhmid – but non-dynastic – origin. Very little is known about his life beyond the Nu'man appointed him as a military governor of al-Hira because he was occupied with the wars against the Byzantines, where he was killed near Circesium. It is unclear whether Abu Ya'fur actually ruled the Lakhmids for a while instead of Nu'man's son, al-Mundhir III, or whether Mundhir assumed control of the tribe immediately upon his father's death.

He appears in a letter by Philoxenus of Mabbug in which Philoxenus tells Abu Yaf'ar of the "heresy" of Nestorius. Abu Yaf'ur resumed attacks on Byzantine-controlled land.

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References

Three letters of Philoxenus. "Bishop of Mabbôgh, Philoxenus, Bp. of Hierapolis; Vaschalde, Arthur Adolphe, 1871-1942". Pub: Roma : Tip. della R. Accademia dei Lincei, pp. 29-33 [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/philoxenus_three_02_part1.htm][https://archive.today/20120805172459/http://www.uoregon.edu/~sshoemak/407/texts/ps_philoxenos.htm]
Josua Stylites, 48

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