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 "label": {
  "ar": "كافور الإخشيدي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الأستاذ كافور، مملوك الإخشيد محمد بن طغج، صار صاحب مصر بعده فلما مات اختل النظام وقلت الأموال على الجند فكتب جماعة إلى المعز العبيدي يطلبون عسكراً ليسلموا إليه مصر {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 615,620}. اشتراه الإخشيد وتقدم عنده حتى صار أكبر قواده لعقله ورأيه وشجاعته ثم صار أتابك ولده من بعده وكان عبياً فبقي الاسم لأبي القاسم أنوجور والدست لكافور فأحسن سياسة الأمور إلى أن مات أنوجور؛ ومعناه بالعربي مأمون {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 29}.",
  "en": "Ustad Kafur, the Ikhshid's mamluk and successor in Egypt; on his death order broke down, the troops' pay ran short, and notables wrote to the Ubaydid al-Mu'izz asking for an army to hand him the country {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 615,620}."
 },
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  "period/abbasid-early"
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 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 615–625",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-36"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/shadharat-dhahab",
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الأستاذ كافور مملوك الإخشيد محمد بن طغج، وصار صاحب مصر بعده {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 615,620}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "صعوده",
     "markdown": "اشتراه الإخشيد، وتقدم عنده حتى صار أكبر قواده لعقله ورأيه وشجاعته، ثم صار أتابك ولده من بعده. وكان الابن صغيراً، فبقي الاسم لأبي القاسم أنوجور والدست لكافور، فأحسن سياسة الأمور إلى أن مات أنوجور {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 29}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "بعد وفاته",
     "markdown": "يذكر السيوطي أنه لما مات اختل النظام وقلت الأموال على الجند، فكتب جماعة إلى المعز العبيدي يطلبون عسكراً ليسلموا إليه مصر {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 615,620}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kafur-al-ikhshidi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Ustadh Kafur, a freedman of al-Ikhshid Muhammad ibn Tughj, who became ruler of Egypt after him. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 615,620}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His rise",
     "markdown": "Al-Ikhshid bought him, and he advanced in his service until he became the greatest of his commanders for his judgement, his counsel and his courage. Then he became the guardian (atabeg) of al-Ikhshid's son after him. The son was young, so the name of rule remained with Abu al-Qasim Unujur and the real management with Kafur, who ran affairs well until Unujur died. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 29}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "After his death",
     "markdown": "Al-Suyuti says that when Kafur died, order broke down and the money available for the soldiers dwindled. A group wrote to al-Mu'izz al-Ubaydi asking him to send an army to take Egypt over. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 615,620}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kafur-al-ikhshidi",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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