Al-Nuwayri joins the diwan al-khass and resides at the Nasiriyya, 698/1298

Name: Al-Nuwayri joins the diwan al-khass and resides at the Nasiriyya, 698/1298
Start: 1298

النويري في ديوان الخاص وساكناً بالمدرسة الناصرية، ٦٩٨هـ/١٢٩٨م

1298 CE · 698 AH

For the first time after recording his own birth, al-Nuwayri mentions — under the events of 698/1298 — his recruitment to the diwan al-khass at Cairo and his residence at the Nasiriyya madrasa, inaugurated by al-Malik al-Adil Kitbugha and acquired by al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun on his return to power that year; he describes the institution at length, reproduces the text of its waqf, and openly criticises its administrator, the tawashi Shuja' al-Din 'Anbar al-Lala, accusing him of embezzlement and demanding the staff's due pay ¹.

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Era: The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region: Egypt & Nile

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Under the events of 698/1298 al-Nuwayri mentions for the first time — after recording his birth — his recruitment to the diwan al-khass at Cairo and his residence at the Nasiriyya madrasa, inaugurated by al-Malik al-Adil Kitbugha and acquired by al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun on his return to power ¹.

The madrasa and its waqf

He describes the Nasiriyya at length and reproduces the text of its waqf, openly criticising its administrator, the tawashi Shuja' al-Din 'Anbar al-Lala, the sultan's tutor, accusing him of embezzlement and demanding he return money owed to the madrasa's staff — boldness the Encyclopaedia of Islam notes among the signs of his self-confidence ².

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Had participant: al-Nuwayri· al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun
Occurred at: Cairo

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Ibn Abbada has al-Nuwayri flogged and confiscates his property, c. 710/1310· Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Nasir Muhammad, Cairo· Al-Nuwayri in the audition sessions: Sahih al-Bukhari under Wazira bint al-Munadhdha, 715/1315· The second copy of the Nihaya: eighteen volumes in under ten months, 721-722/1321-1322· Al-Nuwayri's death at Cairo, 21 Ramadan 733/5 June 1333· The Iwan al-Bahri dream: al-Nuwayri still at the Nasiriyya, 13 Dhu al-Qa'da 729/8 September 1329· Al-Nuwayri joins the exiled al-Nasir at al-Karak, Rabi' II 709/September 1309· Composition of the Nihaya begins: volume one dated 714/1314

Sources

Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 157
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 pp. 157-158

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Ibn Abbada has al-Nuwayri flogged and confiscates his property, c. 710/1310

Ibn Abbada, the sultan's wakil al-khass, had made al-Nuwayri his deputy at the Nasiriyya, the Mansuriyya and elsewhere, so that he entered upon the sultan and read affairs with him; puffed up by this he spoke loosely of Ibn Abbada, and the sultan did not restrain his denunciation but handed him over to Ibn Abbada and empowered him, who flogged him severely and confiscated his property — and nobody thanked al-Nuwayri for what he had done. Soon after he was sent away to Syria; he does not even hint at this misfortune in his work and mentions only his transfer to Tripoli.