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Zuhayr ibn Qays
Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi was an Arab commander sent by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik to recover Ifriqiya after the death of Uqba ibn Nafi. In the late 680s he defeated the Berber leader Kusaila, who was killed in the battle, and retook Kairouan. On his return eastwards he was killed fighting a Byzantine landing near Barca in Cyrenaica.
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