Kitab Wafayat ALA'Yan. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary Transl. by (Guillaume) B(aro)N Mac-Guckin de Slane Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...conviction that he was gone for ever. On the Day of Sacrifice (the 10th of Z0 'l-Hijja), in the same year, they placed his son az-Zahir on the throne. The empire (of the Fatimites) was composed, at that time, of Egypt, lfrikiya, and Syria. Salih Ibn Mirdas al-Kilabi (1)0l.I. p. 631; then marched against Aleppo, which he besieged and wrested from the hands of Murlada 'd-Dawlat Ibn Lam al-Jarrahi, formerly a slave (ghuldm) of Abu 'lFadail Ibn Sharif lbn Saif ad-Dawlat al-Hamdani (vol. II. p. 339), and now governing that city as lieutenant to az-Zahir. All the neighbouring country then submitted to Ibn Mirdas, and Hassan lbn Mufarrij Ibn Daghfal al-Badawi (chie/' of the Bedwtn Arabs amt) lord of Ramla (1), having conquered the greater part of Syria, the power of az-Zahir was humbled, and a number of events succeeded, too long to relate. This prince took for vizir Najib ad-Dawlat (optimus-imperiiy Abu 'l-Kasim Ali lbn Ahmad al-Jarjarai, him whose arms had been cut off at threlbows by al-Hakim in the month of the latter Rabi, A. H. 404. This punishment was inflicted on him at the gate of Cairo called Bab al-Kasr al-Bahri (the Castle Gate on the road to the river), after which he was carried home. He held, at that time, the direction of one of the government oflices, but being discovered in peculation, he incurred the punishment just mentioned. In the year 100 (A. D. 1018-9), he was appointed director of the pension-office (Ditrdn an-Nafakdt), and, in A. H. 418, nominated vizir to az-Zahir. Previously to this, he had held different posts under government, in Upper and Lower Egypt. VVhcn raised to the dignity of vizir, he authorised the kadi Abu Abd Allah al-Kudai,5l author of the book called as-Shihdb (2), to write his aldma 3). It consisted of ...