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Nasir al-Dawla Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Hamdan
(
Arabic
:
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) was a descendant of the
Hamdanid dynasty
who became a general of the
Fatimid Caliphate
, ruing Egypt as a
de facto
dictator in 1071?1073.
Abu Muhammad al-Husayn was a grandson of
Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Nasir al-Dawla
, a Hamdanid prince who had fled to the
Fatimid Caliphate
when
Mosul
had been taken over by the
Uqaylid dynasty
in 990.
He served as
governor of Damascus
from 1041 to 1048, succeeding
Anushtakin al-Dizbari
.
He played a leading role in the civil war of 1067 to 1073 between the Fatimids'
Turkish
and
Nubian
troops as the leader of the former. In this struggle, he requested the assistance of the
Seljuks
and even tried to abolish the Fatimid caliph
al-Mustansir
and restore allegiance to the
Abbasids
. He succeeded in becoming master of
Cairo
and reduced al-Mustansir to a powerless puppet, while his Turks plundered the palace and the treasury. These actions were blamed for the subsequent
Mustansirite Hardship
. His increasingly tyrannical regime led to a split and he was ousted for a time, but was able to regain control of Cairo in 1071/2. His rule was ended with the murder of himself and his family in March/April 1073. The anarchic conditions in the country continued until al-Mustansir called upon the governor of
Palestine
,
Badr al-Jamali
, for aid in late 1073.
References
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Sources
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(1971).
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.
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.
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Early members
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Hamdanids of
Mosul
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Hamdanids of
Aleppo
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Later members
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Ruling emirs are denoted in
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