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the state. The vizier al-Falahi was nominally in charge, but he held virtually no real power - Rasad and al-Tustari were the ones who were really in charge. Rasad played al-Tustari and al-Falahi against each other. In 1047, the jealous al-Falahi collaborated with Turkish elements in the army to have al-Tustari assassinated. Rasad had al-Fallahi arrested and executed the following year. She briefly appointed al-Tustari's brother Abu Nasr to oversee management of her
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between the two halves of the army eventually degenerated into open warfare in 1062, and a prolonged drought that then hit Egypt only exacerbated the situation. The Turks soon claimed victory, and in recompense for the Caliph and the Caliph mother both having supported the blacks, the latter was arrested and stripped of her property. For his part, al-Mustansir was strong-armed into bribing his own soldiers to stand down by emptying his treasury.
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and his army of Syrian mercenaries. Al-Jamali, who had also once been a slave, was made the vizier thereafter in 1074. This was the effective end of Rasad's long de facto rule, though she continued to serve as a royal diplomat for the remainder of her life. She is mentioned in 1078, when performing
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Rasad was waited upon by 5,000 slaves, endowed valuable philanthropies, and underwrote a building campaign. She championed the cause of her black soldiers - most of whom were her countrymen - in their ongoing struggle for supremacy against their Turkish rivals in the royal army. The battle of wills
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and appointed her previous owner Abu Sa'd al-Tustari as its head. With the blessing of her passive son, she effectively ruled the state by influencing the appointment of favourites to posts and offices, and it was said that she was the ruler of her son and that her diwan was the 'gate to power' of
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Al-Tustari's specific assassin, however, could not be identified, and al-Mustansir did not want to punish a large number of Turkish soldiers. So in order to counterbalance the Turkish influence, Rasad brought in an influx of black slave soldiers and compelled state officials to buy them. When the
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of northern Syria. According to Taef El-Azhari, Rasad may have been a leading actor in these negotiations, especially since she had already exchanged gifts with Theodora before.
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along with al-Mustansir's daughters. Although this account is disputed, Rasad's power was reduced and she is rarely mentioned in chronicles afterward.
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and its cadet families that have ruled following al-Mustansir's death in 1094, Rasad's bloodline has come down to the present day. For example, the
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to get food supplies into the country. They also discussed a possible military alliance, since they shared a common enemy in the
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during the minority of al-Mustansir; Rasad was never formally regent, but as the mother of the Caliph (equivalent to a
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In 1036, her son al-Mustansir ascended the throne of Egypt in his seventh year. Formally, Egypt was ruled by the
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This article is about the 11th-century mother of a ruler of Egypt. For the Iranian Satellite, see
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Serious famine struck Egypt in 1054. The Fatimids negotiated with the Byzantine Empress
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Jenco, Leigh K.; Idris, Murad; Thomas, Megan C.; Thomas, Megan Christine (2019).
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For unknown reasons, medieval chroniclers never used this title to describe her.
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objected to this policy in 1050, Rasad had him dismissed and replaced with
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In 1074, Caliph al-Mustansir was able to restore order with the help of
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In 1067 or 1069, after the Turkish soldiers' victory, Rasad fled to
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The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt's Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft
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between 1044 and 1071. The name Rasad literally means "observed".
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origin. Described as being Sudanese, she first entered the
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When al-Jarjara'i died in 1044, Rasad established her own
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Leigh K. Jenco, Murad Idris and Megan C. Thomas (2019),
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Index

Rasad 1
Cairo
Egypt
Al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah
Al-Mustansir Billah
Fatimid caliph
al-Mustansir Billah
Egypt
Sub-Saharan African
Fatimid harem
Fatimid caliph
Ali az-Zahir
concubine
favourite
al-Mustansir Billah
vizier
Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i
queen mother
al-Husayn al-Jarjara'i
Abu Muhammad al-Yazuri
Ibn al-Sairafi
al-Maqrizi
Theodora
Mirdasids
Baghdad
Badr al-Jamali
Arwa al-Sulayhi
Yemen
Fatimid dynasty
Aga Khans

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