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Mujir al-Din Tashtakin

مجير الدين طاشتكين

The Iraqi Hajj's amir — insisting the Syrian caravan could not depart Arafat before his, he rode out with his men and the Iraqi rabble; the assault on the Syrian pilgrims left their amir Ibn al-Muqaddam dead of wounds at Mina, though Tashtakin had taken him into his own tent to treat him and mend what had passed 1.

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military
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Overview

Mujir al-Din Tashtakin, amir of the Iraqi pilgrims. Ibn al-Athir says that he forbade Shams al-Din ibn al-Muqaddam, amir of the Syrian pilgrims, from leaving Arafat before him in 583 AH. 1

The events of Arafat

Ibn al-Muqaddam did not stop for his prohibition. Tashtakin rode out with his companions, and a great crowd of commoners and the Iraqi pilgrims' hangers-on followed him. They fell upon the Syrian pilgrims, killed a number of them and plundered their property, and wounded Ibn al-Muqaddam so badly that he died at Mina the same day. 1

Ibn al-Athir says that Tashtakin had taken Ibn al-Muqaddam to his tent to nurse him and make up for what he had neglected in his rights. 1

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Participated in
The Arafat clash and Ibn al-Muqaddam's killing (583 AH)

People and things also explored

Shams al-Din Ibn al-Muqaddam· Mecca· The Arafat clash and Ibn al-Muqaddam's killing (583 AH)

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 162-163
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Shams al-Din Ibn al-Muqaddam

Greatest of the Salahiyya amirs — given Saladin's leave after Jerusalem's fall to make Hajj from the Holy City itself, he led the great Syrian caravan of 583; refusing the Iraqi amir al-hajj's claim of precedence at Arafat, he was mortally wounded in the ensuing attack while holding his men from fighting for the sanctity of place and day, and died at Mina.