Muhammad ibn al-Qasim (vizier)

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
محمد بن القاسم
Born
Abbasid Caliphate
Died
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Other namesIbn al-Qasim
OccupationAbbasid vizier
Years activeJuly 933 – October 933
(under al-Qahir)
FatherAl-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah
RelativesAl-Husayn ibn al-Qasim (brother)

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim (Arabic: محمد بن القاسم) 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.

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