The rulers of the Muslim world at the start of the ninth century

ملوك العالم الإسلامي أول القرن التاسع

c. 1398 CE · 801 AH

Ibn Hajar's roll at the ninth century's dawn (801): Barquq over Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz; Bayezid ibn Uthman in Anatolia; a Rasulid over Tihama and a Zaydi imam over highland Yemen; the Marinid Abu Sa'id Uthman in the central Maghreb and Ibn al-Ahmar at its far end; Timur Gurkan in the east, Ahmad ibn Uways in Baghdad, Hasan ibn Ajlan amir of Mecca, and the Abbasid al-Mutawakkil as caliph — his title contested by the Zaydi imam and some Maghreb kings while Yemen's khatib still invoked al-Musta'sim ¹.

Overview

Ibn Hajar, as Ibn al-Imad relates in "Shadharat al-Dhahab", gives a list of the rulers of the Muslim world at the start of the year 801 AH, the first year of the ninth century. ²

The rulers named

Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz: the king al-Zahir Barquq.
The lands of Rum: Abu Yazid ibn Uthman.
Yemen: the king al-Ashraf Isma'il in the parts of Tihama, and the Zaydi imam Ali ibn Salah in the mountains.
Central Maghrib: Abu Sa'id Uthman al-Marini. Far Maghrib: Ibn al-Ahmar.
The eastern lands: Timur. Baghdad: Ahmad ibn Uways.
Mecca: Hasan ibn Ajlan. Medina: Thabit ibn Nufayr.
The caliphate: the Abbasid Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Mutawakkil. ²

A dispute over the title

The text says that the Zaydi imam and some kings of the Maghrib disputed with him the title Commander of the Faithful, and that the preacher of Yemen used to pray for the Abbasid al-Musta'sim. ²

The text also names the deputies of Damascus, Aleppo, Tripoli, Hama, Safad and Gaza, and says that al-Sakhawi wrote the biographies of the people of this century in six volumes. ²

The rulers of the Muslim world at the start of the ninth century

At a glance

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Overview

The rulers named

A dispute over the title

Sources

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