At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · emir
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- 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-Zayn al-Hafizi the physician; he treated al-Malik al-Hafiz of Ja'bar — hence the nisba — then served al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf, who raised him high and sent him as envoy to the Tatars. He ingratiated himself with them and counselled them, so Hulagu employed him and he became a Tatar man, a traitor to the Muslims; God set his own master upon him and he was slain before him — he had been al-Malik al-Zahir's secretary — and with him were killed his kinsmen and intimates, fifty in all. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 535
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Zayn al-Hafizi, the physician”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-zayn-al-hafizi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.