At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
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Summary
In Jumada II 701 (January 1302) al-Nuwayri travelled to Syria at the sultan's request to manage state property, the diwan al-khass, in a country unsettled since Ghazan Khan's great invasion of 699; he stayed at Damascus two years and four months 1.
His travels in the country
He travelled round the country — he mentions a journey in the Ghawr and describes the Ghuta of Damascus with the same attention to detail he gave Upper Egypt. He seems to have amassed a small fortune: in 703 he had no fewer than ten horses, but an equine epidemic destroyed them, leaving him without even a mount of his own. He befriended Sayf al-Din Balaban al-Jukandar al-Mansuri, appointed shadd of crown property in 702 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Nuwayri
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- During the reign of
- al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi
People and things also explored
Al-Dhahabi begins the study of hadith at Damascus, 690/1291· Al-Dhahabi heads a reading session at the Umayyad Mosque, Muharram 700/1300· Baybars expels al-Nawawi from Damascus to Nawa, 676/1277· Al-Nawawi finishes the Minhaj and the Rawda, 669/1270-71· Al-Nawawi completes al-Tahrir fi alfaz al-Tanbih, 671/1272-73· Death of al-Zahir Baybars, 676· Al-Dhahabi is born at Damascus, 673/1274· Birth of Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari at Damascus, 700/1301
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 157
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Nuwayri sent to Syria to run the diwan al-khass, Jumada II 701/January 1302”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nuwayri-damascus-701/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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