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Safad

صفد

The principal town of Upper Galilee on a commanding hill. The Franks built its first fortress in 495/1101-2 and later handed it to the Templars; Saladin took it in Shawwal 584/December 1187 after a six-week siege; al-Mu'azzam Isa razed the fortress in 617/1219-20, and al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il returned it to the Franks in 638/1240; under the Mamluks it became the capital of a province (mamlaka) 1.

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Levant & Iraq
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Summary

The principal town of Upper Galilee on a commanding hill. The Franks built its first fortress in 495/1101-2 and later handed it to the Templars; Saladin took it in Shawwal 584/December 1187 after a six-week siege; al-Mu'azzam Isa razed the fortress in 617/1219-20, and al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il returned it to the Franks in 638/1240; under the Mamluks it became the capital of a province (mamlaka) 1.

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Birthplace of
Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi· Mahmoud Abbas· Moses Cordovero· Zahir al-Umar
Home of
Shams al-Din al-'Ulaymi· Mahmoud Abbas· al-Mutawakkil Ahmad ibn al-Husayn "al-Mu'ti"
Site of
Baybars takes Safed, 664· Al-Safadi is born at Safad, 696/1297· Al-Safadi's chancery service: Safad, Aleppo, al-Rahba, 723-726/1323-1326· Siege of Safed (1188)

People and things also explored

Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi· Al-Safadi is born at Safad, 696/1297· Al-Safadi's chancery service: Safad, Aleppo, al-Rahba, 723-726/1323-1326· Al-Safadi dies at Damascus, 10 Shawwal 764/23 July 1363· Al-Safadi's lecture tour at Aleppo, 759/1358· Death of al-Safadi's brother Jamal al-Din Ibrahim, 742/1341· Al-Safadi's earliest attested copying, 718/1318· Al-Safadi's pilgrimage, 755/1354

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 8 p. 757-758
  • Wikidata
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Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi

Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi — historian and chancery writer who composed al-Salih Isma'il's reply to the Marinid sultan's letter, and granted ijaza for both after Izz al-Din Abu Ya'la read them in a single session in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, Dhu al-Qa'da 756, a reading that 'graced the ear with eloquence'.