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al-Afdal Shahanshah. Abū'l-Najm Badr ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Jamālī al-Mustanṣirī, [1] better known as Badr al-Jamali ( Arabic: بدر الجمالى ), was a vizier and prominent statesman for the Fatimid Caliphate under Caliph al-Mustansir. His appointment to the vizierate in 1073 restored the fortunes of the Fatimid state ...
Abū'l-Najm Badr ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Mermeladaālī al-Mustanṣirī, 1 más conocido como Badr al-Jamali, en árabe: بدر الجمالى , fue un visir armenio y destacado estadista del Califato Fatimí a partir de 1073, durante el gobierno del califa al-Mustansir. Tras una etapa convulsa en las últimas décadas en la que el Califato ...
In 1073 an able soldier, Badr al-Jamālī, went to Cairo at the invitation of the caliph and seized power; in one night his officers rounded up the leading generals and officials and put them to death. He assumed the titles of commander of the armies, director of the missionaries, and…. Read More.
Al-Àfdal Abu-l-Qàssim Xahanxah ibn Badr al-Jamalí (àrab: الأفضل أبو القاسم شاهنشاه بن بدر الجمالي, al-Afḍal Abū l-Qāsim Xāhanxāh b. Badr al-Jamālī ), més conegut com a al-Àfdal ibn Badr al-Jamalí o al-Àfdal Xahanxah ( Acre , 1066 - el Caire , 1121 ), fou un visir fatimita .
Badr al-Jamalí ( àrab: بدر الجمالي, Badr al-Jamālī) (vers 1012- 1094) fou un general i visir fatimita . Era un esclau armeni de l' emir sirià Jamal-ad-Dawla ibn Ammar. Va ocupar diversos càrrecs a Síria i per dues vegades fou governador de Damasc però la severitat del seu govern fou rebutjat per les tropes acostumades a governants menys exigents.
Badr al-Jamali: A general who brought his army from Syria in 1074 in response to a plea by the caliph al-Mustansir to restore order in Egypt. He soon consolidated his control over the entire country and became the vizier as well as army commander (amir al-juyush), leaving the caliph as a mere religious figurehead.
Badr, al-Jamali, Abu al-Najm (r. 1074–1094), commander of the Fatimid armies in Egypt and Syria, was the first in a sixty-year era of Muslim viziers and military rulers of Armenian origin, a position he assumed following his restoration of order in the Fatimid lands after a period of political and social turmoil.
