Juday al-Kirmani

Juday ibn Ali al-Kirmani al-Ma'ni^[1] (Arabic: جديع بن علي الكرماني المعني; fl. 736–747) was an Azdi commander in Khurasan during the final decades of the Umayyad Caliphate. He initially helped defeat the rebel al-Harith ibn Surayj and his Türgesh allies in 736–737, becoming one of the most prominent men in Khurasan and a rival to the Umayyad governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar. The rivalry led in 744 to a revolt of the Yamani tribes against Nasr, in which al-Kirmani was joined by his former enemy, Ibn Surayj. The two allies expelled Nasr from the provincial capital, Merv, in late 746 but soon fell out, and both Ibn Surayj and later al-Kirmani were killed. The turmoil of the revolt opened the way for the start and eventual triumph of the Abbasid Revolution.