Khalaf ibn Mula'ib
Sayf al-Dawla Khalaf ibn Mulāʿib al-Ashhabī al-Kilābī (
Life
Khalaf ibn Mula'ib belonged to the Arab tribe of
Its [the mashhad's] builder is the most illustrious amīr, the elect, the defender of the rule, the sword of the state, Khalaf b. Mulāʿib; may Allah perpetuate his elevated position in the year 481 (=1088/89).
After complaints about Khalaf's actions reached the Seljuk sultan Malik-Shah I, the latter dispatched his brother Tutush I, the Seljuk prince of Damascus, and other Seljuk princes in Syria to apprehend Khalaf. He was subsequently ousted from Homs in 1090 and from Apamea in 1091. He was arrested, put into an iron cage, and sent to prison in Isfahan, the Seljuk capital. After Malikshah's death in 1092, his widow freed Khalaf who then left for Cairo, capital of the Fatimid Caliphate. In 1095/96, representatives of Apamea went to Cairo requesting a governor from the Fatimids. Khalaf was chosen, and may have been proposed by Apamea's representatives themselves. Khalaf served as the lord of Apamea under the suzerainty of the Fatimids.[4]
On 3 February 1106, Khalaf was assassinated by a squad of
References
- ^ Gibb 2002, p. 72, note 4.
- ^ Gibb 2002, p. 72.
- ^ Sharon 2007, p. 161.
- ^ a b Lewis 1995, p. 919.
- ^ Sharon 2007, pp. 158, 160–161.
- ^ Gibb 2002, pp. 72–73.
Bibliography
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- Gibb, H. A. R. (2002) [1932]. The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi (2nd ed.). Luzac and Co.
- Sharon, Moshe (2007). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palestinae, Addendum: Squeezes in the Max van Berchem Collection (Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Northern Syria), Squeezes 1–84. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15780-4.