Aḥmad Bey - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Aḥmad Bey - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Clancy-Smith, Julia

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060572
Doc. NO	:	ALei969
Main Entry	:	Clancy-Smith, Julia
Title & Author	:	Aḥmad Bey - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Clancy-Smith, Julia
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,099 words)
Abstract	:	Aḥmad Bey b. Muṣṭafā of Tunis (d. 1855) was the tenth ruler of the Ḥusaynid dynasty, which ruled Tunisia from 1705 until 1957; he was known as a reformer and moderniser. He was born in 1221/1806 to a Sardinian slave woman, Francesca Rosso, who had been taken captive by Tunisian corsairs in 1798 from a small island off the Sardinian coast, raised at the Ḥusaynid court, and married to Muṣṭafā Bey, Aḥmad’s father. Indeed Francesca’s son was apparently referred to as “the Sardinian” by members of the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei969.pdf