Kutayfāt, also known as Abu Ali Ahmed ibn al-Afdal or al-Afdal Kutayfāt, (d. 1131) was
vizier
A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...
and ''amīr al-juyūsh'' (commander of the armies) to
al-Hafiz
Abūʾl-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir, better known by his regnal name as al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh ( ar, الحافظ لدين الله, , Keeper of God's Religion), was the eleventh Fatimid caliph, ruling over Egyp ...
, Caliph of Egypt, from 1130-1131. He seized power by imprisoning al-Hafiz but was murdered by
Fatimid
The Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Fatimids, a dy ...
forces loyal to the caliph. Kutayfāt was the son of
al-Afdal Shahanshah
Al-Afdal Shahanshah ( ar, الأفضل شاهنشاه, al-Afḍal Shāhanshāh; la, Lavendalius/Elafdalio; 1066 – 11 December 1121), born Abu al-Qasim Shahanshah bin Badr al-Jamali was a vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt. According to a ...
and grandson of
Badr al-Jamali
Abū'l-Najm Badr ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Jamālī al-Mustanṣirī, better known as Badr al-Jamali ( ar, بدر الجمالى) was an Armenian Shia Muslim Fatimid vizier, and prominent statesman for the Fatimid Caliphate under Caliph al-Mustansir. Hi ...
, and so the third generation of Armenians serving as Fatimid vizier.
References
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Encyclopedia Islamica', Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung, editors, Leyde-Boston, Brill, 2008
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* Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ''The First Crusaders, 1095-1131'', Cambridge University Press, London, 1997, pgs. 180-2, 186-7
* {{EI2 , last = Stern , first = S. M. , authorlink = , title = al-Afḍal, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad, surnamed Kutayfāt , volume = 1 , page = 216 , url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0339
Viziers of the Fatimid Caliphate
1131 deaths
Assassinated heads of state
Ethnic Armenian Shia Muslims
12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate
Leaders who took power by coup