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Founder of the Tulunid dynasty
- Ahmad ibn Tulun (Arabic: أحمد بن طولون, romanized : Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn ; c. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905.
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Ahmad ibn Tulun (Arabic: أحمد بن طولون, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn ; c. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905. Originally a Turkic slave-soldier, in 868 Ibn Tulun was sent to Egypt as governor by the Abbasid caliph.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer. Mosque of Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, huge and majestic red brick building complex built in 876 by the Turkish governor of Egypt and Syria. It was built on the site of present-day Cairo and includes a mosque surrounded by three outer ziyādahs, or courtyards.
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The Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Arabic: مسجد إبن طولون, romanized: Masjid Ibn Ṭūlūn) is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is one of the oldest mosques in Egypt as well as the whole of Africa surviving in its full original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area.
Ahmad ibn Tulun; (Arabic: أحمد بن طولون , romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn ; ca. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905. Originally a Turkic slave-soldier, in 868 Ibn Tulun was sent to Egypt as governor by the Abbasid caliph. Within four years Ibn ...
This mosque was built for Ahmad ibn Tulun, son of a Turkish slave of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. He was sent to Egypt in 868 as governor of al-Fustat, but within two years he had been made governor of the whole country.
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun was built in 879, the third congregational mosque in Fustat. The first was built in 641, by ‘Amr ibn al-‘As, the Muslim conqueror of Egypt, and the second at al-‘Askar, the Abbasid capital founded in 750. All trace of al-Askar has now completely vanished, and the original form of the mosque of ‘Amr has been all ...
528 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF AHMAD IBN TULUN. The administration of the country was entrusted to a governor, who was appointed by the Caliph ; and of the governors, from the date of the Conquest (a.h. 21 = a.d. 642), down to the accession of Ahmad ibn Tiiliin (a.h. 254=a.d. 808), one only1 had held offico for more than two or three years at a time.
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