Amīr al-Juyūsh

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Fatimid commander-in-chief

Names

Persian: امیر الجیوش = Amīr al-Juyūsh 1

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw1	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Amir al-Juyush: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 45 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “Amīr al-Juyūsh” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/1651.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching and Persian collection/transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue

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