At a glance
- Roles
- Vizier
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Al-Malik al-'Adil 'Ali b. al-Sallar the Kurd, then of Egypt — vizier of the Fatimid al-Zafir bi'llah; he came from the governorship of Alexandria to Cairo to seize the vizierate by force, entered and ruled; the vizier Najm al-Din Salim b. Masal fled and gathered the armies, so Ibn al-Sallar equipped a force to fight him — they met at Dalas, Ibn Masal was killed and his head paraded, in 544. 1
His character and murder
Ibn al-Sallar was a Sunni Shafi'i, brave and bold, who built the Salafis a known madrasa — but he was also a stubborn tyrant, oppressive, fierce of arm, hard to deal with. He was the husband of the mother of 'Abbas b. Badis, and Nasr b. 'Abbas killed him on his bed at Cairo in Muharram 549, and 'Abbas took the kingdom. 1
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. 629
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “العادل ابن السلار”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-sallar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.