Malik ibn Kaydar (
Arabic: مالك بن كيدر; died 848) was a
Sogdian[1] military officer for the
Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century.
The son of
Kaydar Nasr ibn Abdallah and brother of
Muzaffar ibn Kaydar, Malik served under the
Turkish general
Ashinas during the
Amorium campaign against the
Byzantine Empire in 838, and he was responsible for pursuing and capturing a number of inhabitants of
Ancyra who had fled from the Muslim army.[2] In 839 Ashinas appointed him as resident governor of
Egypt, and his administration there was praised by the fifteenth century chronicler
Ibn Taghribirdi. After holding the governorship for a little over two years, he was dismissed by Ashinas in favor of
Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani in 841. He died in
Alexandria in 848.[3]