page_title: Marwanids
section_title: Mumahhid al-Dawla Sa'id
hierarchical_section_title: Marwanids / List of Marwanid rulers / Mumahhid al-Dawla Sa'id
caption_attribution_description: English: Mayafarkin 2nd E tower N. of Gate. Merwanid Sa'id 391 AH. L. H. No.2 [City Wall - detail of second east tower N of gate showing carved Arabic inscription - Merwanid Sa'id]
context_page_description: The Marwanids were a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty in the Diyar Bakr region of Upper Mesopotamia and Armenia, centered on the city of Amid. Other cities under their rule were Arzan, Mayyāfāriqīn, Hisn Kayfa, Khilāṭ, Manzikart, Arjish.
  According to most academic sources, the Marwanids were a Kurdish dynasty. Encyclopaedia of Iran consider them as an Arab dynasty in one article, and refers to them as a Kurdish dynasty in another article.
context_section_description: Mumahhid, a skilful diplomat, could make use of the Byzantines' ambitions. The relations of this prince with the Emperor Basil II were quite friendly. When Basil learnt of the murder of the Georgian potentate David III of Tao, who had left by testament his kingdom to the Byzantine Empire, he stopped the campaign that he had begun in Syria for making sure of Arabian emirs' obedience and he crossed the Euphrates. He annexed David's state, received Mumahhid al-Dawla with honours and made peace with him.
  Mumahhid al-Dawla took advantage of the peace to restore the walls of his capital Maïpherqat (Mayyafariqin), where an inscription still commemorates this event.
  In 1000 when Basil II travelled from Cilicia to the lands of David III Kuropalates (Akhlat and Manzikert), Mumahhid al-Dawla came to offer his submission to the emperor and in return he received the high rank of magistros and doux of the East.
caption: Merwanid Said, 391 AH (ca. 1000 AD), Silvan, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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