At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Details
He was given the Damascus chancery after the fall of Tankiz — the same Tankiz whose request to seat Alam al-Din Ibn al-Qutb as katib al-sirr had first provoked al-Umari's fateful quarrel 3.
Connections
- Had participant
- Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari· Shihab Yahya ibn al-Qaysarani
- Occurred at
- Damascus
People and things also explored
Birth of Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari at Damascus, 700/1301· Death of Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari at Damascus, 749/1349· Al-Umari dismissed from the Damascus chancery, Safar 743/1342· The retirement years and the great works, 743-749/1342-1349· Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari· Damascus· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk
Sources
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/333
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/520
- Al-Durar al-Kamina fi A'yan al-Mi'a al-Thamina — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Dar al-Jil, Beirut) , 1/332
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Umari takes the Damascus chancery, Muharram 741/1340”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/umari-damascus-chancery-741/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.
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