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Dawud ibn Isa, amir of Mecca

داود بن عيسى أمير مكة

Dawud ibn Isa — installed in Mecca's emirate by caliphal order when his brother Mukaththir was besieged in his Abu Qubays castle and fled, Dhu al-Hijja 571 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Arabia
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Dawud ibn Isa, brother of the prince Mukaththir, who held the emirate of Mecca in 571 AH. 2

The emirate

Ibn al-Athir reports that the caliph ordered him to take his brother's place when Mukaththir built a fortress on Mount Abu Qubays. He assumed the emirate after the strife of Dhu al-Hijja 571 AH and Mukaththir's flight from the city. 2

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Sibling of
Mukaththir ibn Isa, amir of Mecca
Participated in
The Mecca fitna and deposition of Mukaththir (571 AH)

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The Mecca fitna and deposition of Mukaththir (571 AH)· Mukaththir ibn Isa, amir of Mecca· Mecca

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 77-78
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.77
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The Mecca fitna and deposition of Mukaththir (571 AH)

Dhu al-Hijja 571: fierce war in Mecca between the Hajj's amir Tashtakin and Mecca's amir Mukaththir ibn Isa, whom the caliph had ordered deposed for his brother Dawud over the castle he had built on Abu Qubays; the pilgrims stormed the city from al-Abtah, burned houses and plundered residents and merchants, Mukaththir was besieged in his hill-fort then fled, and Dawud took the emirate — and a blue-eyed arsonist who burned an orphans' house with a naphtha flask was struck by a stone mid-throw and burned in his own fire three days.