Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Attash

أحمد بن عبد الملك بن عطاش

c. 1106 CE · 500 AH

Master of the Batiniyya's fortress at Isfahan for twelve years — a castle Malikshah built atop a mountain — until Sultan Muhammad b. Malikshah stormed it and killed him in 500 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni

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Ahmad b. 'Attash, master of the Batiniyya's fortress at Isfahan; he held it twelve years — a castle built by Malikshah atop a mountain. 1

The fortress falls

In 500 Sultan Muhammad b. Malikshah campaigned against the Batiniyya, took the castle and killed him. 1

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Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah takes the Batiniyya fortress at Isfahan and kills Ibn Attash in 500

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السلطان محمد بن ملكشاه· Isfahan· Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah takes the Batiniyya fortress at Isfahan and kills Ibn Attash in 500

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 410
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السلطان محمد بن ملكشاه

The Saljuq sultan Ghiyath al-Din Abu Shuja' Muhammad Tapar — a famous brave champion who won the crown from his brother Barkiyaruq after long wars; he died at Isfahan in Dhu l-Hijja 511, buried in a great Hanafi madrasa, leaving four sons who became sultans; the Alamut siege was lifted at the news.