Al-Afdal Shahanshah (Arabic: الأفضل شاهنشاه, romanized: al-Afḍal Shāhanshāh; Latin: Lavendalius/Elafdalio; 1066 – 11 December 1121), born Abu al-Qasim...

Marathi-language novel by Indian writer N. S. Inamdar al-Afdal Shahanshah, Fatimid vizier in Cairo Shahanshah, son of Muhammad III of Alamut Shah (disambiguation)...

vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, who ruled the Fatimid state and confined al-Amir, like al-Musta'li before him, to the palace. In December 1121, al-Afdal was...

sons of Caliph al-Mustansir Billah, al-Musta'li became caliph through the machinations of his brother-in-law, the vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah. In response...

Al-Afdal (Arabic: الأفضل, "most superior") is an Arabic name which means "Most Superior". It may refer to: Al-Afdal Shahanshah (1066–1121), vizier of the...

between al-Mustansir's older son, Nizar, and the younger al-Mustaʽli, who was raised to the throne by Badr's son and successor, al-Afdal Shahanshah. The...

to succeed Taj al-Ma'ali Mukhtar as the chief of staff of the vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah. His origin is uncertain. A biography (Sirat al-Ma'mun) written...

imprisoning al-Hafiz but was murdered by Fatimid forces loyal to the caliph. Kutayfāt was the son of al-Afdal Shahanshah and grandson of Badr al-Jamali, and...

Fatimid vizier Al-Afdal Shahanshah (1121), Seljuk atabeg Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi (1126), Fatimid caliph al-Amir bi-Ahkami’l-Lah (1130), Taj al-Mulk Buri, atabeg...

Isma'ili imam, al-Mustansir. When his father died in December 1094, the powerful vizier, al-Afdal Shahanshah, raised Nizar's younger brother al-Musta'li to...

Sharaf al-Ma'ali Sama' al-Mulk al-Husayn ibn al-Afdal was a son of the Fatimid vizier and quasi-sultan, al-Afdal Shahanshah. Husayn commanded the Fatimid...

Fatimids, under the nominal rule of caliph al-Musta'li but actually controlled by vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, lost Jerusalem to the Seljuks in 1073 but...

another source, the shrine was built in 1098 by the Fatimid vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah.[verification needed] The mausoleum was described as the most magnificent...

learned of the approach of a 20,000-strong Fatimid army under vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah. Under Godfrey's command the 10,200-strong Crusader army took the...

narrowly defeated the Fatimid vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah. In the second on 17 May 1102, al-Afdal's son Sharaf al-Ma'ali and a superior force inflicted...

Badr al-Jamali died in 1094 (along with Caliph al-Mustansir that same year) and his son Al-Afdal Shahanshah succeeded him in power as vizier. After al-Mustansir...

service as chief of staff to the all-powerful vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, in 1107–1121. After al-Ma'mun's rise to the vizierate, Haydara was appointed...

the Fatimid caliph, al-Mustansir, was his younger son al-Mustaʻlī, who was made Caliph by the Fatimad Regent Al-Afdal Shahanshah. In contrast to the Nizaris...

Fatimid fortress in Palestine. From Ascalon the Fatimid vizier, Al-Afdal Shahanshah, launched almost annual attacks into the newly founded Crusader kingdom...

Fatimids, under the nominal rule of caliph al-Musta'li but actually controlled by vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, had lost Jerusalem to the Seljuks in 1073;...

sent by vizier Al-Ma'mun between Ascalon and Jaffa. After the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Fatimids, vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah mounted a series...

and Ilghazi who were expelled from Jerusalem by the Fatimid vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah in 1098; the Fatimids lost the city to the Crusaders the following...

representative for the expedition, dies of the plague. 26 August. Al-Afdal Shahanshah captures Jerusalem from the Seljuks and installs Iftikhar Ad-Daulah...

of al-Afdal Shahanshah (1094–1121), but it was abandoned after a member of the party was lost in the passages. The Arab polymath Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi...

style of the all-powerful Armenian vizier Badr al-Jamali and his son al-Afdal Shahanshah while Abd al-Majid may have supported him with the aim of gaining...

al-Afdal Shahanshah, when Husam al-Mulk Aftakin is mentioned as holding it. It effectively replaced the office of 'master of the curtain' (ṣāḥib al-sitr)...

Israel as early as Judah Halevi. In the time of the Egyptian vizier Al-Afdal Shahanshah (d. 1121), one Solomon ben Duji, often identified as a Khazarian...

1094. Al-Mustansir tried to regain the powers he had ceded to him, but the majority of Badr's officers supported the succession of Badr's son al-Afdal as...

the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade. 1121...

vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah responded by sending Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Najib al-Dawla, who Arwa appointed commander of the army. The goal of Ibn Najib al-Dawla's...