نزار بن المستنصر صاحب الدعوة النزارية

c. 1101 CE · 495 AH

Nizar b. al-Mustansir — al-Musta'li's brother to whom the Nizari da'wa of Alamut is traced; he fled to Alexandria where its security chief, its qadi Ibn Ammar and its mutawalli Iftikin backed him, until al-Afdal besieged them, beat Iftikin in the field, took both to Cairo, beheaded Iftikin and immured Nizar alive — at the opening of 495 ¹.

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قيام الخلافة العباسية بالقاهرة

Ahmad ibn al-Zahir — freed from Baghdad's prison when the Tatars took it — came to Baybars in Rajab 659 with ten of Banu Maharish; the sultan rode out to meet him, his line was proven before chief qadi Taj al-Din ibn Bint al-A'azz, and the bay'a ran: the sultan first, then the qadi, then Shaykh Izz al-Din ibn Abd al-Salam, then the great by rank, on 13 Rajab. His name went on the coinage, he preached in black at the citadel mosque, robed the sultan with his own hands before the Cairo tent, and was granted an atabeg, ustadar, sharabi, khazindar, hajib and katib with a hundred horses. The caliphate's gap had lasted three and a half years; al-Dhahabi notes none after his uncle's son took it save him and al-Muqtafi.

نزار بن المستنصر صاحب الدعوة النزارية

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قيام الخلافة العباسية بالقاهرة