At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Al-Nuwayri left Tripoli in Jumada I 712 (September 1312) and entered Cairo on 20 Rajab/20 November of the same year after a brief stay at Damascus; the circumstances of his departure are obscure. According to his biographers he was then appointed nazir al-diwan of two Nile Delta provinces, al-Dakhaliyya and al-Murtahiyya 1.
The end of his administrative service
He seems to have administered the two provinces' revenues until about 716/1316 while residing at Cairo — making roughly eighteen years (698-716) of service across the three most important diwans: al-khass, al-insha' and al-jaysh 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Nuwayri
- Occurred at
- Cairo
People and things also explored
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· Ibn Abbada has al-Nuwayri flogged and confiscates his property, c. 710/1310· Al-Nuwayri joins the diwan al-khass and resides at the Nasiriyya, 698/1298· Composition of the Nihaya begins: volume one dated 714/1314· Recall to Cairo as mubashir of the royal estates and Mansuri waqfs, Ramadan 703/1304
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 158
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Return from Tripoli to Cairo and the Delta inspectorate, 712/1312”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nuwayri-return-712/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.
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