Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- mystic · Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia · Egypt & Nile
- 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
Sa'd al-Din Ibn Hamuwayh, the sufi shaykh of the Juwayni house, accompanied his uncle Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hamuwayh and travelled with him to Egypt in the retinue of Fakhr al-Din Ibn al-Shaykh. He described the captives on the day of the victory of al-Mansura as more than twenty thousand, kings and notables among them, the slain numbering seven thousand. He was among the shaykhs of the Path, with states and sayings. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 248, 259
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Sa'd al-Din b. Hamuwayh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sad-al-din-ibn-hamuwayh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.