ʿAlamī family

by Kupferschmidt, Uri M.

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The ʿAlamī family is a prominent and longstanding Muslim family of Jerusalem. Though often associated with an ashrāf family from Fez by the same name, or with a certain ʿAlamī who accompanied Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn in the reconquest of Jerusalem in 583/1187, recent research traces the family's genealogy to Mūsā b. Sulaymān al-ʿAlam, a governor of Jerusalem from 793–5/1390–3, who may have originated from Ḥiṣn ʿAkkār, near Tripoli (Ṭarābulus al-Shām). Mūsā was succeeded as governor by his brother ʿUmar (d.…

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The ʿAlamī family is a prominent and longstanding Muslim family of Jerusalem. Though often associated with an ashrāf family from Fez by the same name, or with a certain ʿAlamī who accompanied Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn in the reconquest of Jerusalem in 583/1187, recent research traces the family's genealogy to Mūsā b. Sulaymān al-ʿAlam, a governor of Jerusalem from 793–5/1390–3, who may have originated from Ḥiṣn ʿAkkār, near Tripoli (Ṭarābulus al-Shām). Mūsā was succeeded as governor by his brother ʿUmar (d. 806/1403–4).

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3381

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eng Islam

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Kupferschmidt, Uri M.

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