Ismat al-Din Khatun

عصمة الدين خاتون

c. 1185 CE · 581 AH

Ismat al-Din Khatun, daughter of the amir Mu'in al-Din Anar, wife of Nur al-Din and then of Salah al-Din; endower of the Hanafi madrasa in Damascus, builder of a khanqah for the Sufis on the southern scarp outside Bab al-Nasr, and of a tomb at Qasyun on the Yazid stream facing Jirjis Dome where she was buried — now within al-Jami' al-Jadid in al-Salihiyya — with rich endowments on all; she died in 581 ¹.

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'Ismat al-Din Khatun, daughter of the amir Mu'in al-Din Anar — wife of Nur al-Din Mahmud the martyr, then of Sultan Salah al-Din; endower of the Hanafi madrasa at Damascus, she built a khanqah for the Sufis on the southern rise outside Bab al-Nasr and a turbah at Qasyun on the Yazid river facing Jaraks's dome, where she was buried — today within the new mosque at the Salihiyya — and she endowed all these places richly; she died in 581. ¹

Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt

Al-Imad al-Katib: Salah al-Din opened the year 567 with Egypt's greatest obedience — the Abbasid khutba, first Jumu'a at Fustat's mosque, the second at Cairo; al-Adid died that Ashura, and the palace's treasures sold for ten years. Shihab al-Din ibn Abi Asrun bore the news to Baghdad, and al-Imad wrote a general proclamation read across the lands of Islam — 'no minbar remains in those lands but the khutba for our lord al-Mustadi' is upon it'. Ibn al-Athir adds: Nur al-Din ordered it, Salah al-Din feared an Egyptian rising, and the Ajami called al-Amir al-Alim mounted the minbar before the khatib and prayed for al-Mustadi' — 'not two goats butted over it'. The khutba spread to Yemen, Barqa, Tawzar and Egypt to Aswan; Ibn al-Jawzi wrote his book al-Nasr ala Misr.

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Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt