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Ibn Al-Dawadari
Sayf al-Din Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Aybak al-Dawādārī (–1335), known as Ibn al-Dawādārī, was a historian from Mamluk Egypt. Life Abū Bakr ibn al-Dawādārī's date of birth is unknown and his background is obscure. He belonged to the ''awlād al-nās'', the "sons of Mamlūks", that class of freeborn Muslims who had Mamlūk ancestors. His family may have been related to the Turkic peoples, Turkic Seljuk dynasty, Seljukids. He was the son of Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbdallāh. His grandfather, Aybak, was the lord of Sarkhad, and possibly the same person as the ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak al-Ustādār al-Muʿaẓẓamī who patronized Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa and died in 1247 or 1248. Both ʿAbdallāh and Aybak were buried in Daraa, Adhriʿāt in Syria. His nickname comes from an ancestor who held the office of ''dawādār'' (chancellor). Ibn al-Dawādārī spent his childhood in Cairo in the street called Ḥārat al-Bāṭiliyya. His father held a high government post until 1310, when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamluk Egypt
The Mamluk Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة المماليك, translit=Salṭanat al-Mamālīk), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz (western Arabia) from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks (manumitted slave soldiers) headed by the sultan. The Abbasid caliphs were the nominal sovereigns. The sultanate was established with the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt in 1250 and was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517. Mamluk history is generally divided into the Turkic or Bahri period (1250–1382) and the Circassian or Burji period (1382–1517), called after the predominant ethnicity or corps of the ruling Mamluks during these respective eras.Levanoni 1995, p. 17. The first rulers of the sultanate hailed from the mamluk regiments of the Ayyubid sultan as-Salih Ayyub (), usurping power from his successor in 1250. The Mamluks under Sultan Qutuz and Baybars rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
