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Tulun. Religion. Sunni Islam. 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.
Ahmad ibn Tulun, founder of the Tulunid dynasty in Egypt and the first Muslim governor of Egypt to annex Syria. As a child he was placed in the private service of the Abbasid caliph at the new capital of Samarra. He rose through the administration and gained significant personal authority in Egypt.
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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 ziyādah s, or courtyards. Much of the decoration and design recalls the ʿAbbāsid architecture of Iraq.
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Mosque of Ibn Tulun. / 30.02889°N 31.24944°E / 30.02889; 31.24944. 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 ...
- Saiid Ibn Kateb Al-Farghany
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- 884
Ahmad ibn Tulun 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 Tulun had established himself as a virtually independent ruler by evicting the caliphal fiscal agent, Ibn al-Mudabbir, taking over control of Egypt's finances, and ...
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. Shortly thereafter, by refusing to send the annual tribute to the Abbasid court, he established himself as an independent ...
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The Life and Works of Ahmad ibn Tulun.1. By Eustace K. Corbet. The Mosque of Ibn Tulun was the third congregational2 Mosque built in the Muslim capital of Egypt. The first, originally built by 'Amr, the conqueror of the country, in. a.h. 21 (a.d. 642), was re-built and extended by many.
