Ahmad ibn tulun biography of alberta

Emir of Egypt and Syria from 868 to 884

"Ibn Tulun" redirects here. For the Damascene historian, see Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Tulun.

Ahmad ibn Tulun (Arabic: أحمد بن طولون, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn‎; c.

Ibn Battuta was a famous explorer from the Arab world.

Ibn Battuta was a famous explorer from the Arab world.

"Ahmad ibn Tulun (–) governed Egypt on behalf of the Abbasid dynasty for sixteen years, taking strides to unify what was a fractious land.

Ahmad ibn Tulun (–) governed Egypt on behalf of the Abbasid dynasty for sixteen years.

As the story progresses, readers learn of Ahmad Ibn Tulun's death and his son's reign, as well as the attempts to destroy his legacy and the fate of Al-Qata'i.

Then two centuries later, Ahmad Ibn Tulun built a residential quarter around the beautiful Mosque which still bears his name.

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.

Within four years he 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 establishing a large military force personally loyal to himself.

This process was facilitated by the volatile political situation in the Abbasid court and the preoccupation of the Abbasid regent, al-Muwaffaq, with the wars against the Persian Saffarids and the Zanj Rebellion. Ibn Tulun also established an efficient administration in Egypt.

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