Bishr al-Afshini (Arabic: بشر الأفشيني) was a military commander for the Abbasid Caliphate and the governor (wali) of Tarsus from 912/3 until at least 918.
[4] In the year 912/3 he was appointed as governor of Tarsus and the Cilician borderlands (thughur) with the Byzantine Empire, succeeding Rustam ibn Baradu.
[2] In summer 914 he received the assistance of an army of 2,000 horsemen sent from Baghdad under Abu Umayr Adi ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Baqi for one of the customary summer raids (ṣā’ifa) into Byzantine territory, but the two commanders were unable to carry out the raid, instead postponing it until winter.
[2][5] In autumn 917 he oversaw, along with the Abbasid commander-in-chief Mu'nis al-Muzaffar, a prisoner exchange with the Byzantines at the Lamos River.
[2] He may also be identified with Bishr al-Khadim ("the Eunuch") who was named governor of Damascus and Aleppo in 933 and was killed in the same year by Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid.