39:, and by the late 1220s was one of the Sultan's right-hand men, serving as his chief financial advisor. However, in 1237, he fell from grace. He was imprisoned for a month and his family home expropriated and sold, after which he appears to have retired into producing works of literature: it is thought that his writings date from after 1238. In 1245, however, al-Kāmil's successor,
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region of Egypt, whose productivity had fallen, and which al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ wished to increase. Al-Nābulusī spent two months of the spring of 1245 touring the region (probably April and May), gathering the information on tax obligations pertaining to the previous year and abetting it with his own
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observations. He visited around 125 settlements, and his record of the visit is the most detailed surviving fiscal record from the medieval Arab world. Nothing more about al-Nābulusi's life is known except that he died on 17 April 1262 and was buried in the cemetery of
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19:(born Cairo 19 Dhū al-Ḥijja 588 AH/26 December 1192 CE, died 25 Jumādā I 660/17 April 1262) was an administrator in
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17:ʽAlāʼ al-Dīn Abū ʽAmr ʽUthman ibn Ibrahīm ibn Khālid al-Qurashī Ibn al-Nābulusī
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The 'Villages of the Fayyum': A Thirteenth-Century
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The 'Villages of the Fayyum': A Thirteenth-Century
Register of Rural, Islamic Egypt
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