Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

The arrest of al-Mustakfi and his exile to Qus

اعتقال المستكفي ونفيه إلى قوص

c. 1337 CE · 737 AH

In 736 fell the breach between al-Mustakfi and the sultan — his nephew Ibrahim's slanders the cause — arrested in the citadel tower, barred from company, then exiled in Dhu'l-Hijja 737 to Qus with his children and household, near a hundred souls provided for; there he stayed till his death in Sha'ban 740, buried at Qus aged about fifty-five 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
Review
Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it

In time

1320133013401350 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

Overview

In 736 AH a dispute arose between the caliph al-Mustakfi and the sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun. The caliph was seized and imprisoned in the tower and forbidden to meet people. 2

Exile to Qus

In Dhu al-Hijja 737 AH he was exiled to Qus with his children and family, nearly a hundred people, and provision was made for them. 2

The cause of the dispute

Al-Suyuti attributes the quarrel to the slander carried by the caliph's nephew Ibrahim. 2

Al-Mustakfi remained in Qus until he died in Sha'ban 740 AH and was buried there. 2

Connections

Explore the connections

Had participant
al-Mustakfi bi'llah Sulayman ibn al-Hakim· al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun

People and things also explored

The killing of al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil in 693 AH· The Buyids enter Baghdad and receive their titles, 334 AH· Lajin murdered; al-Nasir restored, 698· Mu'izz al-Dawla deposes and blinds al-Mustakfi· Al-Muttaqi blinded by Tuzun· al-Malik al-Ashraf Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Qalawun· السلطان المنصور سيف الدين قلاوون· Uzbek Khan ibn Tughriljay

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 736,739
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.736,739
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “The arrest of al-Mustakfi and his exile to Qus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mustakfi-qus-exile-737/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Time

Eras, timelines, this day in history, any year in the Islamic world. Related

The killing of al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil in 693 AH

In 693 the amir Baydara murdered al-Ashraf Salah al-Din Khalil as he sat alone after the hunt, was enthroned as al-Malik al-Qahir, then the Khasakiyya under Kitbugha routed and killed him and restored al-Nasir Muhammad; the vizier Ibn al-Sal'us was seized and stripped — warned in verse 'beware the bite of al-Shuja'i', he died of it — and when al-Shuja'i besieged Kitbugha in the Citadel the sultan's mamluks killed him and paraded him through the town to public joy.