al-Aḥdab, Muḥammad b. Wāṣil - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Aḥdab, Muḥammad b. Wāṣil - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Garcin, Jean-Claude

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1059968
Doc. NO	:	ALei365
Main Entry	:	Garcin, Jean-Claude
Title & Author	:	al-Aḥdab, Muḥammad b. Wāṣil - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Garcin, Jean-Claude
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(875 words)
Abstract	:	Muḥammad b. Wāṣil al-Aḥdab (the hunchback) was a leader of the Bedouin ʿArak, a Southern Arab tribe. In the mid-eighth/fourteenth century, he led a rebellion against the Mamlūks and then reached an accomodation with them. His date of death is unknown. To understand the role played by al-Aḥdab (Garcin, Centre musulman , 381–409; Garcin, Note , 153) with regard to the Bedouins, we must consider the shift from the cautious politics followed in Upper Egypt by Sulṭān Baybars (r. 658–76/1260–77), the founder of the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei365.pdf