At a glance
- Roles
- emir · General
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Faris al-Din Aqtay, the renowned amir; master of seven hundred mamluks, his estate feared — a peerless sword and a valiant slayer. Shajar al-Durr, al-Malik al-Mu'izz and their party agreed his intent was ill, saying only guile could remove him from Egypt. 2
His killing
Al-Mu'izz called him to the Citadel, took him aside, beat him and returned him bruised with the marks of ill on his face — poison was slipped him and he died in agony; or, it was said, run through with a lance, he witnessed his fay' assigned to 'Abda b. 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, qadi of his town. His death was reckoned the herald of their state's fall; he has an ode praising the Prophet ﷺ. 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. 257-258
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Faris al-Din Aqtay al-Musta'rib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/faris-al-din-aqtay/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.