Al-Abbas ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun
Al-ʿAbbās ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn was the eldest son of the founder of the
Khumarawayh
, in May 884.
Biography
Abbas was the eldest son of
Barqa. Ibn Tulun tried to persuade him to return and even offered him a pardon, but Abbas refused.[1][3]
Instead, he resolved to take over
Jabal Nafusa, Ilyas ibn Mansur al-Nafusi, mobilized resistance to the invader. His 12,000–strong army defeated Abbas in winter 880/1.[1][4]
Abbas, with the remnants of his army, fled east and was defeated and captured outside Alexandria by troops loyal to his father. Brought as a prisoner to the Egyptian capital,
Khumarawayh in 882.[5][6] When Ibn Tulun died in May 884, Khumarawayh, enjoying the backing of the Tulunid elites, succeeded him without trouble, and Abbas was executed.[6][7]
References
- ^ a b c d e Bearman et al. 2004, p. 1.
- ^ Kennedy 2004, pp. 176–177.
- ^ a b Bianquis 1998, p. 96.
- ^ Bianquis 1998, pp. 96–97.
- ^ a b Bianquis 1998, p. 97.
- ^ a b Sobernheim 1987, p. 973.
- ^ Bianquis 1998, p. 104.
Sources
- ISBN 978-90-04-13974-9.
- ISBN 0-521-47137-0.
- ISBN 978-0-582-40525-7.
- Sobernheim, Moritz (1987). "Khumārawaih". In Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (ed.). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Volume IV: 'Itk–Kwaṭṭa. Leiden: BRILL. p. 973. ISBN 90-04-08265-4.