al-Musta'in (Cairo)
al-Musta'in (Cairo), the caliph of the Abbasid of Cairo caliphate, ruling 1406–1414 CE.
Reign · Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo · no. 10 in the chain · 1406–1414 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Al-Maqrizi moves to Damascus, c. 810/1408
Around 810/1408 al-Maqrizi moved to Damascus and spent about ten years there. He taught at the Iqbaliyya and administered the endowments of the Qalanisiyya and the great Nuri hospital — a post legally reserved for the Shafi'i judge of Damascus. That judgeship itself was offered to him by al-Nasir ibn Barquq, but he refused it. In Syria he seems to have resolved to give up an unsatisfying public career and devote himself wholly to historical scholarship.
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Battle of Çamurlu
Draft card for the Battle of Çamurlu in 1413, Mehmed I's victory over his brother Musa ending the Ottoman interregnum; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Chalagan
Draft card for the Battle of Chalagan in 1412, the Qara Qoyunlu victory over King Constantine I; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Kosmidion
Draft card for the Battle of Kosmidion in 1410, Suleiman Çelebi's victory over his brother Musa in the Ottoman interregnum; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Sardrud
Draft card for the Battle of Sardrud in 1408, Qara Yusuf's victory over the Timurids in Azerbaijan; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Şənbi-Qazan (1410)
Draft card for Battle of Şənbi-Qazan (1410); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Capture of Bejaia (1410)
Draft card for Capture of Bejaia (1410); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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The Burning of Wine-Drinkers in Damascus in 813 AH
On the night of 21 Muharram 813 two commoners met in Damascus and drank wine; at dawn they were found burnt, no fire found between them nor trace of burning beyond their bodies and some of their clothes — one dead, the other with breath left — and the people came in throngs to see them and take warning.
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Edigu's campaign against Moscow
Draft card for Edigu's campaign against Moscow in 1408, restoring Golden Horde tribute; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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The great calamity of Fez, 813 AH
In 813 came the great calamity of Fez in the Maghreb, until the city was ruined.
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Ibn Hajar installed as head of the Baybarsiyya khanqah, 813/1410
On 3 Rabi' I 813 (6 July 1410) Ibn Hajar was installed as shaykh of the Baybarsiyya khanqah, in control of its educational and administrative affairs. He lost the post in 816, was reinstated in Rabi' II 818 (June 1415), and held it for almost thirty-one years until ousted on 20 Jumada I 849 (24 August 1445); he then taught at the Dar al-Hadith al-Kamiliyya until, on 2 Rabi' II 852 (6 June 1448), the khanqah was restored to him for the few months before his final illness. Among his administrative innovations was an alphabetical filing system for the institution's beneficiaries, imitated by other colleges and by the army bureau.
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Ibn Hajar begins hadith lectures at the Shaykhuniyya, 808/1406
Ibn Hajar opened his hadith lectures at the Shaykhuniyya college in Shawwal 808 (March 1406); he later taught at the renovated Jamaliyya from its opening in Rajab 811 (November 1408) and at the Mankutimuriyya from Jumada II 812 (October 1409). He also held the mufti's seat in the Dar al-Adl from 811 until his death and served as associate preacher and imam at al-Azhar and the Mosque of Amr.
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The Karamanid siege of Bursa
The Karamanid Turcoman emir besieged Bursa in 1413 CE and destroyed the Orhan Gazi Mosque; the mosque was repaired four years later.
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The great Levantine coast earthquake, 811
10 Sha'ban 811 — a great earthquake from Aleppo's region to Tripoli, Latakia and Jabla: Balatanus castle fell, Shughr Bakas destroyed with all but twenty of its people, a whole town carried a mile on a landslip with its trees and folk unharmed, Cyprus damaged, and the sea drew back ten parasangs stranding ships before it returned.
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Mamluk campaign against Mecca (1409)
Draft card for Mamluk campaign against Mecca (1409); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Mehmed I returns the capital to Bursa
Sultan Mehmed I, a lover of peace, learning and the jurists, moved the capital of the state from Edirne, 'the city of the ghazis', back to Bursa, 'the city of the jurists'.
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The accession of al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh to the sultanate in 815 AH
In 815 Shaykh al-Mahmudi took the sultanate, titled al-Mu'ayyad and styled Abu Nasr — after al-Nasir Faraj's deposition, the caliph al-Musta'in's brief sultanate and deposition, and Faraj's killing.
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The acclamation of the caliph al-Musta'in as sultan
When sultan Faraj marched on Shaykh, was routed and killed, the CALIPH al-Musta'in was hailed as sultan too — Muharram 815: coins in his name, officers appointed and dismissed, the amirs in his service, and Ibn Hajar's famous ode 'the kingship stands firm-based in al-Musta'in the just Abbas'. Then Shaykh, styled Nizam al-Mulk, ruled from the stables, barred the caliph's own unseen signature, usurped as al-Mu'ayyad in Sha'ban and deposed him; Syria's regent Nawruz assembled the qadis whose fatwa voided it.
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Siege of Antequera (1410)
Draft card for Siege of Antequera (1410); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Constantinople
Draft card for the Siege of Constantinople in 1411, Musa Çelebi's assault during the Ottoman interregnum; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Setenil de las Bodegas (1407)
Draft card for Siege of Setenil de las Bodegas (1407); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Sixth Siege of Gibraltar
Draft card for the Sixth Siege of Gibraltar in 1411, the Marinid recapture of the Rock; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin
Draft card for the uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin of 1408–1413, the early Bulgarian rising against Ottoman rule under the two princes; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Zayyanid capture of Fez
Draft card for the Zayyanid capture of Fez in 1410–11, Abu Sa'id Uthman's entry into the Marinid capital; its sources are not yet checked on the page.