Sulayman ibn Daoud

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Sulayman ibn Daoud
Imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism
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1207/8 — 1248
Preceded byDaoud al-Hamid li-llah
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Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd (

Isma'ili faithful, was the 26th and last imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism. Like his father, he spent most of his life in captivity at the hands of the Ayyubid government. He died apparently childless, thereby ending the line of Hafizi imams and of the Fatimid dynasty
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Life

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Isma'ili faithful as their rightful imam.[3][4] A series of pro-Fatimid conspiracies and uprisings in the 1170s failed to topple the new Ayyubid regime,[5][6] and Daoud spent his life in prison, until his death in 1207–8.[7]

Despite the separation of male and female prisoners, Daoud apparently managed to beget two sons, reportedly with slave women secretly smuggled into his chambers. Sulayman, given the epithet Badr al-Din (lit. 'Full Moon of the Faith') by his followers, was the oldest. As soon as his mother had conceived him, she was reportedly smuggled to Upper Egypt, where pro-Fatimid sentiment lingered, and where her son was born. Later, likely under the Ayyubid sultan al-Kamil (r. 1218–1238), Sulayman was captured and confined in the Cairo Citadel, where the rest of the surviving Fatimid clan was being held as well.[8]

Sulayman died in 1248, apparently childless, thus ending the direct Fatimid line. Some Isma'ili partisans claimed that he had a son who was hidden, repeating the common motif of the '

Hidden Imam'.[7][9] As late as 1298, a pretender claiming to be Daoud, the son of Sulayman, appeared in Upper Egypt, but by this time the Isma'ilis had been reduced to small isolated enclaves, the last traces of which disappear in the 14th century.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ Daftary 2007, pp. 252–253.
  2. ^ Halm 2014, pp. 290–291.
  3. ^ Daftary 2007, p. 253.
  4. ^ Halm 2014, pp. 292, 296.
  5. ^ Daftary 2007, pp. 253–254.
  6. ^ Halm 2014, pp. 296–297.
  7. ^ a b Daftary 2007, p. 254.
  8. ^ Halm 2014, pp. 298–299.
  9. ^ Halm 2014, p. 299.
  10. ^ Daftary 2007, pp. 254–255.
  11. ^ Halm 2014, p. 325.

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Preceded by 26th Imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism
1207/8–1248 		Died childless
End of the line of Hafizi imams
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