Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Iskafi al-Muwaffaq

أبو علي الحسن بن محمد الإسكافي الموفق

c. 1003 CE · 394 AH

Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il, Abu Ali al-Iskafi, known as al-Muwaffaq. He was highly regarded by Baha' al-Dawla ibn Nasir, who appointed him over Baghdad; he arrested the Jews and took dinars from them, then fled to al-Bataih, where he stayed two years, and then came out and served as vizier to Baha' al-Dawla. He was valiant in war and victorious in it; he took the lands of Persia from those who had seized them. His standing rose until someone said to Baha' al-Dawla, 'May God adorn you, my lord, in the eye of al-Muwaffaq'; he pressed on with punishing him, then killed him in 394, aged forty-nine 1.

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Roles
Vizier · General
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq · Persia & Central Asia
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun

Overview

Al-Hasan b. Muhammad b. Isma'il, Abu 'Ali al-Iskafi, surnamed al-Muwaffaq; advanced at the court of Baha' al-Dawla b. Nasir, he governed Baghdad — seizing the Jews and taking dinars from them — then fled to the Batihah marsh where he dwelt two years, came out and became Baha' al-Dawla's vizier; lion-hearted in wars and victorious — he took the land of Fars from those who held it. 1

His end

His star rose so high that someone said to Baha' al-Dawla: "May God adorn you, our lord, in the eye of al-Muwaffaq" — he was punished at length, then killed in 394 at forty-nine. 1

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Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.228-229
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The investiture of al-Sharif al-Radi in black with the headship of the nuqaba'

On Friday 16 Muharram 403 al-Sharif Abu'l-Hasan al-Musawi, al-Radi, was entrusted with the headship of the nuqaba' of the Talibids in all the realms. A patent to that effect came to him from the court of Baha' al-Dawla. It was read in the house of Fakhr al-Mulk in his presence, after the notables among the sharifs, judges, scholars and soldiers had been assembled, and he was robed in a black robe of honour, the first Talibid in the history of the Abbasid state to be so robed.