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The Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti dies at Aleppo, Ramadan 646/1248

وفاة القاضي الأكرم القفطي بحلب، رمضان ٦٤٦هـ

c. December 1248 CE · Ramadan 646 AH

Aleppo

The vizier al-Qadi al-Akram Jamal al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf al-Shaybani al-Qifti died in Ramadan 646/1248-9 1 2; he had assembled a library no one else had matched, kept neither house nor wife, and bequeathed his books — worth fifty thousand dinars — to al-Malik al-Nasir of Aleppo 3.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

124012501260 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Aleppo

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Summary

The vizier al-Qadi al-Akram Jamal al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf al-Shaybani al-Qifti died in Ramadan 646/1248-9 1 2; he had assembled a library no one else had matched, kept neither house nor wife, and bequeathed his books — worth fifty thousand dinars — to al-Malik al-Nasir of Aleppo 3.

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Had participant
al-Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti· al-Nasir, lord of Damascus
Occurred at
Aleppo
During the reign of
al-Musta'sim bi'llah Abdullah ibn al-Mustansir, last caliph of Baghdad

People and things also explored

Aleppo· Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi is born at al-Ma'qiliyya outside Aleppo, 10 Rabi' II 654/1256· Hulagu's threatening letters to al-Nasir, ruler of Damascus· Al-Qifti leaves Jerusalem for Aleppo, 598/1201· Al-Malik al-Zahir puts al-Qifti over Aleppo's diwan of finances, c. 606/1210· Al-Malik al-Aziz reappoints al-Qifti over the diwan of finances, 616/1219· Al-Qifti resigns on al-Malik al-Zahir's death, 613/1216· Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 326
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 236
  3. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 325
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes
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Aleppo

Aleppo is a city in northern Syria on the river Kuwayk, among the oldest inhabited cities in the world, first mentioned in the twentieth century BC. It became a Hamdanid capital under Sayf al-Dawla in 333 AH, prospered under the Zangids and Ayyubids, and was stormed by the Mongols in 658 AH. It was then Mamluk and later Ottoman, and in Ottoman times became the principal market of the Levant.