Rashiq al-Nasimi
Rashiq al-Nasimi رشيق النسيمي | |
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| Governor of Tarsus | |
| In office 962–965 | |
| Preceded by | Ibn az-Zayyat |
| Succeeded by | Byzantines control of Tarsus |
| Military career | |
| Years of service | c. 962 – 965 |
| Battles / wars | Arab-Byzantine war of 964–965 |
Rashiq al-Nasimi (Arabic: رشيق النسيمي) was the governor of Tarsus for the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla and Abbasid caliph from 962 until the city's surrender to the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas in 965. He then took over Antioch, and launched a failed attack on the Hamdanid capital, Aleppo in early 966. He took the lower city and besieged the citadel for over three months, but was killed and his men fled back to Antioch.