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Nevertheless, soon after, Abu Ja'far refused to sanction the marriage of his daughter and the Caliph's son. According to some accounts al-Mu'izz then had Abu Ja'far thrown in prison, and he was saved from a worse fate only through the appeal on his behalf of the
126:, he was renowned for his "proverbial piety". Abu Ja'far's travails with Kafur's court fool, Sibawayh, who played pranks on him and called him a "Meccan paedophile" reveal, according to Bianquis, a humility of character bordering on pusillanimity.
248:, including Abu Ja'far's own son Ja'far, left Fustat to join the invaders. During the mobilization to save the capital from the Qarmatians, however, when the entire male population was called to arms, al-Mu'izz made an exception for Abu Ja'far.
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Nevertheless, the same qualities made him a much sought-after as a mediator and conciliator in factional squabbles among the elite. During the turbulent period that followed Kafur's death in April 968, he mediated between the
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His full genealogy is given by Jamal al-Din Ahmad ibn Ali al-Hasani as "Abu Ja'far Muslim ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Tahir ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan ibn Ja'far ibn Ubayd Allah ibn al-Husayn al-Asghar ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin ibn
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was void, and Abu Ja'far was tasked with approaching Jawhar to secure its renewal. Jawhar agreed, and charged Abu Ja'far Muslim with its upkeep, even giving him the right to issue personal writs of
143:, and close friend of Abu Ja'far—and the other factions to arrive at a power-sharing arrangement. It was likewise his intervention with Ibn al-Furat that secured the release of Ibn al-Furat's rival
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This privileged relationship was strained during the
Qarmatian invasion of 974. Not only was Abu Ja'far's brother Akhu Muslim one of the chief Qarmatian leaders, but several of the younger
92:. The latter was a proud and haughty man who possessed military ability, as he was entrusted with commanding an army and gubernatorial office by the Ikhshidid strongman
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85:. There the Husaynids had become the most prominent local family, and in the early 10th century, some of them had migrated to Egypt.
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of the city and became the first in a long series of
Husaynid emirs (also known as sharifs) of the city.
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at the head of a delegation of notables to meet and accompany him during the last part of his journey to
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made travel difficult for a man of his years. Al-Mu'izz continued Jawhar's policy of accommodating the
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Abu Ja'far had two younger brothers: Abu'l-Husayn Isa and Abu
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to negotiate the surrender of the city and Egypt to him and secure a writ of sureties (
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137:—a scholar, extremely pious, patron of the
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159:During the
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219:Alexandria
98:Qarmatians
72:Shiʻi Imam
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282:Offspring
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