Badr al-Din al-Sinjari

بدر الدين السنجاري

c. April 1265 CE · Rajab 663 AH

Egypt's qadi al-qudat — a Baalbek judgeship before thirty, then al-Salih's purse at Sinjar and the Egyptian qadiate plus the vizierate, with a stable and mamluk retinue beyond any minister; dismissed under al-Zahir's late reign he kept to his house; 'some said he took bribes and oppressed' — d. Rajab 663 1.

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At a glance

Roles
Jurist · Vizier
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Qasim al-Hawwari al-Awfi · Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani · Afif al-Din ibn Mazru'

Place in the story

    sunni-shafii (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Summary

    Badr al-Din al-Sinjari, qadi al-qudat; majestic and praised for generosity, he held the judgeship of Baalbek and beyond before thirty, then returned to Sinjar and spent on al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din. 1

    Rise and fall

    When al-Salih took Egypt he visited him, was given Egypt and the Upper Country, then the chief judgeship after Sharaf al-Din Ibn 'Ayn al-Dawla, and administered the vizierate with horses and mamluks no vizier could match; he rose ever higher until in the early Zahirid state he was deposed and kept to his house; he died in Rajab — it was said he took bribes and wronged, as told in al-'Ibar. 1

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 544
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