الأمير شمس الدين أقوش صاحب حلب
الأمير شمس الدين أقوش صاحب حلب
Aleppo's amir, who raised his own Abbasid caliph — 'al-Hakim bi-amr Allah' — with khutba and coin while Cairo hailed al-Mustansir 1.
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- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Amir Shams al-Din Aqush, lord of Aleppo. He installed a caliph there, titled him "al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah", gave the sermon in his name, and had his own name struck on the dirhams. So there were two caliphs at one time, in Aleppo and in Cairo 2.
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Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 724
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.724
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islam.museum contributors. “الأمير شمس الدين أقوش صاحب حلب”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shams-al-din-aqush/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.