Khalf al-Ayyubi, lord of Hisn Kayfa

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Roles: emir
Era: The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region: Anatolia
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan

Overview

Khalf b. Ahmad al-Ayyubi; he died in 866, the last of the Ayyubids to hold the fortress of Kayfa, which many of them had held before him ¹.

Sources

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 307

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