Shams al-Din Batikin · Islam Museum

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Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Ali al-Shalubin · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi

Overview

The amir Shams al-Din Abu'l-Fada'il Batikin the Armenian (d. 640 Baghdad); a mamluk of the mother of Caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah, he served as deputy of Irbil under al-Mustansir for a long stretch; when the Tatars took Irbil in late 634 he returned to Baghdad and died there ¹.

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Shams al-Din Batikin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/batikin-al-armani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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