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Al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salam, The sultan of scholars

Scholar

ScholarThe sultan of scholars

Al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salamالعز بن عبد السلام

Approximate dateCairo

A scholar who told the Mamluk emirs they were still legally slaves and must be sold for the treasury.

Expelled from Damascus for condemning its ruler's alliance with the Crusaders, he moved to Cairo. There he ruled that the Mamluk emirs, never formally freed, must be sold and freed, with the price going to the public. Before Ain Jalut he ruled that a war tax was allowed only after the emirs gave up their own gold.

What grew out of it?

His book on the aims of the law, Qawa'id al-Ahkam, prepared the way for later maqasid thought.

The lesson

A scholar's duty is to speak the truth to those in power.

Who else is linked?

Cairo and FustatAbu Ishaq al-ShatibiQutuzAyyubidsMamluk Sultanate

Who lived at the same time?

IltutmishAl-ZahirJalal al-Din MangburniGenghis KhanAl-KamilKayqubad IMuhammad II of KhwarazmAl-Mustansir

Source: history · Wikipedia

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