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" ʿAlī Bey al-Kabīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Crecelius, Daniel
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English
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1063017
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ALei3414
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Crecelius, Daniel
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ʿAlī Bey al-Kabīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Crecelius, Daniel
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,520 words)
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ʿAlī Bey al-Kabīr (c. 1140–87/1728–73), an Egyptian mamlūk of Georgian origin, rose to become one of the most powerful political figures of Egypt. According to his contemporary biographer Sauveur Lusignan, he was born in Abkhazia, then a small province in northwestern Georgia. Supposedly the son of David, a Greek Orthodox priest, he was sold into slavery in 1154/1741, around the age of thirteen, taken to Egypt, bought by two Jewish customs agents, and offered as a gift to the Georgian Ibrāhīm Katkhudā, who at the
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Islam.
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ALei3414.pdf
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