Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- mystic · emir
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
'Ali al-Fahhad, mamluk of Sinjar Shah b. Ghazi, lord of the Jazira; a valiant amir who, when his master was killed, renounced the world and clung to worship, becoming one of the great marvels of asceticism and scrupulosity. He told of himself that his master, when he wished to give him something, would open the gold treasury and say 'take with your own hands' — and he left all that for God. He had famous spiritual states. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 259
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islam.museum contributors. “Ali al-Fahhad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ali-al-fahhad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.