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Ibrahim b. Mubarakshah al-Is'irdi

إبراهيم بن مبارك شاه الإسعردي

c. 1423 CE · 826 AH

Ibrahim b. Mubarakshah al-Is'irdi, the celebrated merchant-khawaja who founded the madrasa at the White Bridge — 'great of wealth, wide of giving, much of largesse'; died 826 1.

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Roles
Merchant · Patron
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Abd al-Karim al-Jili · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan

Ibrahim ibn Mubarakshah al-Isʿirdi

Ibrahim ibn Mubarakshah al-Isʿirdi, known as al-Khwaja, a well-known merchant and the owner of a college at the White Bridge. He had great wealth, was very generous and gave away much. He died in 826 AH 1.

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 181
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