ʿAlī Bey al-Kabīr

by Crecelius, Daniel

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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 K…

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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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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3414

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eng Islam

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Crecelius, Daniel

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