At a glance
- Roles
- writer · Vizier · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sunni-hanafi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Badr al-Din al-Kalastani, katib al-sirr of Egypt; he worked in his homeland, then Baghdad, came to Damascus obscure, then Egypt where closeness to al-Juybani brought him modest ease; when al-Juybani held Syria's regency he came with him and was given the Zahiriyya teaching, the Asadiyya shaykhdom and the headship of the Umayyad Mosque. 2
The Turkish letter
When the sultan marched to Aleppo a letter arrived from the Lesser Armenia in Turkish that none could read; he was summoned, read it, drafted an excellent reply, and was kept in the sultan's company until given the secretariat — he used to tell that he rose owning not a dirham and by evening had horses and wealth beyond description. 2
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 20-21
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Badr al-Din al-Kalastani, katib al-sirr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/badr-al-din-al-kalastani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.