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Mukaththir ibn Isa, amir of Mecca

مكثر بن عيسى أمير مكة

Amir of Mecca — deposed by the caliph's order for building a castle on Abu Qubays; besieged in it by the Hajj host in Dhu al-Hijja 571, he abandoned it and left Mecca to his brother Dawud 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Arabia
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The amir Mukaththir ibn Isa, amir of Mecca. Ibn al-Athir says that he built a fortress on the mountain of Abu Qubays, and the caliph ordered the amir of the pilgrimage, Tashtakin, to remove him and to install his brother Dawud in his place. 1

The war of Dhu al-Hijja 571 AH

In Dhu al-Hijja 571 AH there was a fierce war in Mecca, in which the pilgrims attacked the city. Mukaththir fled to his fortress and was besieged there; then he left it and marched away from Mecca, and his brother Dawud took over the command. 1

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

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

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 77-78
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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.