At a glance
- Roles
- scribe · Poet
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Al-Sinaki, clerk of works of the Damascus Umayyad Mosque, an accomplished, extremely humble littérateur with poetry; appointed supervisor at the mint, he was asked to hold a sealed chest in trust until the depositor returned from the Hijaz — knowing nothing of its contents. Then word was written to the amir Taybars the vizier's deputy that the chest held dies for striking false coin; his house was raided, the chest found, and his defence was not accepted. He was disgraced through Damascus and expelled. 1
Exile
From the road he sent a companion: 'My land, though it wronged me, is dear; I am but musk — away from your soil, I fade.' 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 546-547
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Shihab al-Sinaki”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sinaki/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.