Ibrahim ibn Asim al-Uqayli (Arabic:إبراهيم بن عاصم العقيلي) (died 743/4) was a military commander of theUmayyad Caliphate and governor ofSistan.

Ibrahim ibn Asim al-Uqayli hailed from theJazira, and belonged to theBanu Uqayl tribe of theQays.^[1] He served as a commander inKhurasan against theTurgesh under bothAsim ibn Abdallah al-Hilali and later underAsad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri. Under Asad he commanded the eponymous baggage train in theBattle of the Baggage in September 737, a heavy defeat for the Muslims.^[1][2]

He was appointed governor of Sistan by thegovernor of Iraq,Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi. On his arrival in his province in July 738, on Yusuf's urging, he either killed his predecessor,Ibn Abi Burda, and seized his property, or imprisoned him and sent him toIraq where Yusuf killed him under torture. Ibrahim died in office in 743/4.^[1][3]

• Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, ed. (1989).The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXV: The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishām, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.ISBN 978-0-88706-569-9.
• Blankinship, Khalid Yahya (1994).The End of the Jihâd State: The Reign of Hishām ibn ʻAbd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.ISBN 978-0-7914-1827-7.
• Crone, Patricia (1980).Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-52940-9.

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