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calls her "one of the most intelligent and regal women who ever lived", and records this anecdote of her wit: when her husband remarked that she had had the good fortune to have married the Caliph, and had no higher achievement to ask God for, she responded that the good fortune was al-Mu'tadid's,
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was a "wedding gift that was considered the most sumptuous in medieval Arab history". The Caliph married her by proxy, the jewelry broker Abu Abdallah al-Jawhari ibn al-Jassas, while she was still in Egypt, and she was escorted from there to Baghdad by Ibn al-Jassas and her paternal uncle Abu
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al-Karadis. She arrived in Baghdad on 3 March 895, an event marked by the luxury and extravagance of her retinue, which contrasted starkly with the impoverished caliphal court.
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The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302
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Qatr al-Nada was originally intended for one of the Caliph's sons, Ali (the future
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This article is about the wife of Caliph al-Mu'tadid. For the grammar book, see
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for their marriage made her father the Caliph's subject, and that
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The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 1: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517
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She died on 8 July 900, and was buried in the caliphal palace at
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court, and recognized Khumarawayh as the hereditary ruler of
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Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad
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Index

Sharh Qatr al-Nada
Abbasid caliph
Baghdad
al-Rusafa
Al-Mu'tadid
Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun
Sunni Islam
Arabic
Arabic
romanized
lit.
Tulunid
Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad
Abbasid caliph
al-Mu'tadid
Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun
Tulunids
Abbasid
Egypt
Syria
tribute
al-Muktafi
gold dinars
Thierry Bianquis
Taj al-Din Ali ibn Anjab ibn al-Sa'i
al-Rusafa
Hurra bint Badr


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