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The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society Edited by Thomas Philipp and Ulrich Haarmann Index More Information Index Abaza, Abazan, Abkhaz, Abkhazia(n), 104, ahlal-rusum, Fatimid officials, 261 114,115,139 Ahmad Agha, d, 1774/5, 284 Abbasid(s), 14, 191, 225, 255, 258, 260 see Ahmad Agha see Giovannai Gaeti also caliphate Ahmad b. Almalik al-Jiikandar, amir, later cAbd al-Rahman, grandson of Baktamur al- Sufi, d. 1391,39,79 Hajib, 38' Ahmad b. al-AtabakT TanT Bak, amir, d. cAbd al-Rahman Katkhuda (Bey) al- 1472/3, 70 Qazdughil b. Hasan JawTsh, d. 1776, 120, Ahmad b. Baktamur al-SaqT, amir of one 125,126,142,233 hundred, d. 1332,66 'Abdallah Bey, retainer ofc AIT Bey Bulut Ahmad b. Balaban al-BaclabakkT, d. 1363, 81 Kapan, 119 Ahmad b. Baydamur, d, 1391, 68 cAbdallah al-Jarf, kdshifof Manufiyya, d. Ahmad Bey MTr Liwa, 1720s, 198 1799, 138 Ahmad Efendi AshkinazT, later Ahmad Bey c AbidTn Bey, brother of Hasan Bey; Albanian, al-Muslimam, d. 1724, 137 early 1800s, 148,233 Ahmad al-HalabT, Shihab al-din (al-QadT al- AbidTn quarter (in Cairo), 217, 218, 233 Ra'Ts), wakil al-khass, early 1300s, 242 Abkhazia see Abaza Ahmad b. Inal (al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad, r, Abu Bakr, Sayf al-dm (al-Mansur Abu Bakr, 1460-1), 73 r. 1341), 23 Ahmad Katkhuda, d. 1787, 120 Abu Bakr b. 'Abdallah b. Aybak al-Dawadan Ahmad b. Muhammad see Ibn al-cAttar see Ibn al-Dawadan Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Qalawun (al-Nasir Abu Bakr b. al-Nasir Muhammad see al- Ahmad, r. 1342), 6, 24, 25 Mansur Abu Bakr Ahmad b. Nawruz, amir, d. 1448, 69 Abu 31-Fidas see 'Irnad al-Din Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, d. 1804, 118, 119, Abu Hamid al-QudsT/al-MaqdisT, historian, 122, 129, 140 d. 1483,69,71, 176, 179,228 Ahmad Pasha al-Kha'in, d. 1524, 93, 94, 95, Abu Sl-Khayr al-Nahhas, wakil bayt al-mdl, 102 1450, 28 Ahmad b. al-Rammal see Ibn al-Rammal Abu '1-Munajja dam (on the Nile), 281, 282 al-AhmadT, Shihab, family of, 287, 288 Abu Shama, historian, d. 1268, 167 cAJisha Kadin, wife ofcAIT Bey al-KabTr, 284 Abu ShanabT faction, eighteenth century, 122 al-cAjlunT, Khattab b. cUmar, Syrian scholar, Acre (cAkka), 7, 118 fifteenth century, 179 adab (belles-lettres), 84 ajldbjulbdn (sultan's Mamluk household), al-cAdil (Mamluk sultan) see Kitbugha; 17,29,42,46 Salamish ajndd al-halqa (halqa troopers), 26, 64 al-Afram, viceroy of Safad, early 1300s, 37 Ak §ehir; 14 Afrasiyab, founder of the Afrasiyab dynasty AkhmTm, 136 inlraq,d.c. 1624/5, 113, 114, 115 Al cUthman see Ottomans Africa, 133 see also North Africa cAla3 al-dm AydakTn, mutawalli of Cairo, agha, 94, 97, 137, 142, 145 1330s, 249 Agostini, Italian resident in Alexandria, c Alam al-dm IbrahTm, son of Taj ad-dm 1780s, 132 Ishaq, 247 290 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-59115-7 - The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society Edited by Thomas Philipp and Ulrich Haarmann Index More information Index 291 cAlam al-din Sanjar al-Jawuli, d. 1344, 243, Altunbugha al-Salihi, naib of Damascus, d, 244, 252 i341,24 'Alam al-din Sanjar al-Mansun, amir, d. Altunbugha al-YalbughawT, rds nawba, d. 1294, 38 i 389?, 26 Albania, Albanian(s), 132, 133, 142, 148, 149 alzdm (sg. lazim), 35, 36 alchemy (kimiyd3), 170, 201 American(s), 136 Aleppo, Halab, 12, 37, 40, 87, 90, 154, 157, amin, pi. umana (tax collector), 101, 108 249 Amln 'Ala5 al-din Qarmut al-Mustawfi, Alexander the great, 171 1330s, 249 Alexandria, 40, 57, 68, 100, 103 , 132, 137, Amln al-Mulk, vizier of al-Nasir 157,246,248 Muhammad, 241 AlfT Bey see Muhammad Bey al-Alf! Aminat Allah Khatun, eighteenth century, 'AH, grandson of Baktamur al-Hajib, 38 284 CA1T (II), 'Ala' al-din (al-Mansiir CA1III, r. amir dkhur, constable, 45, 47, 51 1377-81), 244 amir of fifty, 44 CA1T b.cAbdallah, mawld of Bashlr Agha, d. amir of forty see amir tablkhdna 1762,203 amir (pi. umard3) al-hdjj, imrat al-hdjj, 14, 15, cAHb. AblTalib (caliph), d. 661, 112, 180 16, 41, 45, 49, 89, 96, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, CA1T Agha ('al-Turf), bash ikhtiydr of the 104, 105, 109, 119, 122, 124,140 Mutafarriqai d. 1724/5,287 amirjdnddr, 29, 45 CA1T (I) b. Aybak (al-Mansur CA1T I, r. 1257/9) amir kabir, 39, 42 - 10, 26 amir al-mahmal, 41, 44, 46 ' AH al-Bakka, shaykh, 1250s, 4, 5 amir majlis, 26, 29, 41, 42, 43, 45 'AH Bey Abu ?l-'Adab al-Armani, d. 1726, amir mi3a see muqaddam alf 137 amir al-muminin, caliph, 14 'AH Bey Agha, appointed pasha of Egypt, amir al-nawriiz, mock prince, 278 1756,119 amir al-rakh (al-awwal, al-misri, al-shdmi), 44, CA1T Bey al-'Ajaml al-Mu'ayyadi, ra's nawba 52, 70 under Khushqadam, 1460s, 30 amir shikar, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49 CA1T Bey Bulut Kapan al-Kablr, d. 1773, 87, amir silah, 26, 27, 43, 49 95, 114, 115, 116, 119, 125, 126, 129, 130, amir tabar, 51 131, 133, 134, 136, 138, 139, 143,148, 283, amir tablkhdna, amir of forty, 37, 41, 44, 45, 284,285, 286 46,'47,48,51,66,77,249 CA1T Bey al-Daftardar, d. 1798/9, 132 amir often, 49, 50, 51 CA1T Bey al-GhazzawT (al-Qird, al-Kablr), d. amir of twenty, 48, 49 1760, 115, 125, 126,284 Amiriyya dam, 278 CA1T Bey al-Habashl, d. 1778, 137, 138 'Amr b. al-'As, conqueror of Egypt, d, c. 663, 'AH Bey al-Hindl, d. 1726, 121, 122 156,159,156,266 CA1T Bey al-Qatamish, d. 1736, 123 cAmr b. al-'As mosque (Old Cairo), 156, 159, 'All Efendi, scribe in the military bureaucracy 231,277 of seventeenth-century Egypt, 99 Anas b. Kitbugha ,,al-Mujahid", d. 1323, 78, cAHb. Maymun al-ldrlsl, Sufi, d. 1511, 167 181 CA1T b. Muhammad al-Lakhmi al-IshbiH see Anatolia (also Asia Minor, 'Turkey'), al-Ishbni Anatolian(s) 36, 93, 94, 99, 102, 108, 110, cAli Pasha (Semiz, 'The Fat', Wall, r. 141,147,149,176,177,228 1549-54), 103 'Anbar al-Sakharti, muqaddam al-mamdlik 'All b. Yusuf b. al-Awhad, d. 1356, 38 under al-Nasir Muhammad until 1331, 21 Aim Aq palace, 213 Andalusia, Andalusian(s), 13, 157, 255 Almoravids, 255 Antes, John, missionary, 1780s, 136 Altamare, Colonel, c. 1810, 144 Anuk, son of al-Nasir Muhammad, d. 1339, Alti Parmak Efendi, Shaykh, early 1600s, 95 240, 244 Altunbugha al-Jawuli, amir and poet, d. Anushirvan (Khosraw), Sassanian king (r. J343, 170 531-79), 171, 194 Altunbugha al-Marida/inT, d. 1343, 20, 213, 'Aqaba, 68 248 AqbardI, amir, 1490s, 13 Altunbugha al-Nizami, muqaddam alf, 1370s, Aqbugha 'Abd al-Wahid al-Nasiri, amir, d. 27, 267 1343,20,21 Altunbugha palace, 213 al-Aqsa mosque, 231 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-59115-7 - The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society Edited by Thomas Philipp and Ulrich Haarmann Index More information 292 Index al-Aqsara'I, Muhammad b. Tsa. b. Isma'Tl al- Aydughmish, cAla3 al-din, amir dkhur, d. Hanafi, fourteenth century, 177 1342, 24, 239 Aqtamur, cAbd al-Ghanl, amir, d. 1381, 28 cAyn Jalut (Palestine), battle of, 1260, 4, 5 Aqiish al-Afram, nd'ib of Damascus, d. 1320, Aynabak al-Badn, amir, d. 1376 or 1378, 27 38 al-cAyni, Badr al-din Mahmud, chronicler Aqush al-Ashrafi, Jamal al-din, amir, d. 1335, and muhtasib, d. 1451, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 35, 244 235, 236, 240, 245, 246, 250, 252, 253 Arab(s), 9, 11, 13, 92, 93, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 'Ayntab, 8 102, 103, 104, 105, 113, 117, 175, 186, 224, Aytamish al-Muhammadl, amir, d. 1337, 37 225, 248, 255, 257 see also bedouins Ayyiib, al-Salih, Ayyubid sultan, r. 1245-8, 4, Arab bow, 184, 185 7, 9, 10, 176* Arabia, 143, 146, 245 Ayyub, son of Murad Bey, 283 Arabic (language, names, sources), 59, 61, 62, Ayyub Bey al-Faqarl, d. 1712/3, 121, 123 67, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 88, 89, 96, 97, Ayyubid(s), xi, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 38, 59, 63, 176, 193, 112, 119, 129, 141, 144, 163, 164, 174, 210,216,257 176, 178, 181, 185, 188, 193, 199, 200, 201, cAzab barracks, 120 202, 256, 259, 269, 170 'Azaban regiment, 115, 121, 122 Ard al-Tabbala, 38 Azbak (Uzbak) min Tutukh, atdbak al- Armenian(s), 15, 136, 137, 141, 144 'asakir to Qaytbay,' 1460s, 29, 36, 216, 220, Arnold von Harff, traveller in 1496, 55, 56, 228, 229 57, 58, 59, 62, 84 Azbak palace, 216, 220 Aruqtay al-Jamdar, amir, d. 1349, 37 Azbakiyya quarter and lake (Cairo), 216, 218, Asandamur al-Nasin, amir, d. 1368, 26 220, 229, 231, 233 Asandamur al-Sarghitmishl, muqaddam alf, Azerbayjan, 178 1370s, 27 " al-Azhar, 105, 158, 197, 199, 204, 209, 211, AshkinazI ^ Ahmad Efendi AshkinazI 212, 214, 215, 219, 221, 231, 287 Ashmun, 248 al-cAzIz, Fatimid caliph, r. 975-96, 260, 261 Ashmunayn province, 248 al-cAziz Yusuf see Yusuf, Jamal al-din al-Ashraf (sultan) see Barsbay; Khalfl b. Azlam (on the pilgrims' route), 103 Qalawun; Qansuh al-Ghawrl; Qaytbay; Sha'ban Baalbak, Ba'albakk, 38, 40 AshrafT household, 112 Bab al-Luq (Cairo), 209, 218, 219, 221, 273 al-cAskar (Abbasid urban foundation north Bab al-Nasr cemetary (Cairo), 147, 212, 214, off al-Fustat), 224, 225 215, 219*, 221 astronomy (falak), 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, Bab Zuwayla (Cairo), 38, 209, 218, 222 158, 159, 161, 162, 200, 201 Baghdad, 257 Aswan, Uswan, 40, 246 Badr al-din Muhammad b.
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