Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Maqrīzī: al-Mawāʿiẓ wa-l-iʿtibār fī dhikr al-khiṭaṭ wa-l-āthār, ed.
Ayman Fu’ād Sayyid (London 2003), vol. 4/2, pp. 746-756. al-Sakhāwī: al-Ḍaw’ al-lāmiʿ li-ahl al-qarn al-tāsiʿ (Beirut 1992), vol. I, pp. 65-67.
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Endower of Berlin Wetzstein II 1 (for his madrasa). Patron of Gotha orient. A 2778. Scion of an old Coptic administrative family. His grandfather Ghurāb was the first
to convert to Islam. نظر الديوان المفرد في سنة 798 نظر الخاص في سنة 798 He was dismissed in Shaʿbān 800. نظر الجيوش عوضا عن شرف الدين محمد الدماميني في 9 ذي القعدة 800 After the death of Sultan al-Ẓāhir Barqūq in 801 civil war breaks out. Ibn Ghurāb
comes out as vizier to the victorious Faraj b. Barqūq. الاستادارية عوضا عن الامير يلبغا السالمي رجب 803 His demeanor turns increasingly like that of the military elite. He holds court, has
a music troop (ṭabl) at his door, amasses horses and eunuchs. Still he dons the attire
of the kuttāb. His influence and power increase. He organises the transfer of power from al-Nāṣir
Faraj b. Barqūq to al-Manṣūr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Barqūq. After 70 days, he is responsible
for re-seating the former. Now he dresses like a military, is adressed as amir, and
wears a sword. Yet soon he falls terminally ill and dies at less than 30 years of age. The biographers on the one hand laud his philantropic actions, especially during the
plague outbreaks. On the other hand does Maqrīzī blame him for the crippling inflation
and therefore the economic downturn of the country. He founded a khānqāh und a madrasa facing the Bashtāk-mosque outside Cairo at the
khalīj.
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