Ahmad ibn Tulun

Ahmad ibn Tulun (září 835-březen 884) byl sultánem Tulunids od 867 do 884, před Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad.

Biography

Ahmad se narodil v září 835 do rodiny Sunni Muslims a v roce 850 byl vycvičen jako voják v Samaře. Sloužil proti Byzantine Empire in Tarsus, Cilicia, and Caliph al-Musta'in mu dala konkubínu v roce 863 po jeho návratu do Bagdádu. In September 868 he was sent to Egypt as the regent for Governor Bayik Bey, but Ahmad instead usurped power and formed his own independent state, the Tulunids. Within four years, he have removed the Abbasid Caliphate from control of Egypt, establishing his own army and financial system. He also built a new capital, al-Qata'i, north of Fustat. In 878, he conquered Syria and the frontier districts along the Byzantine border, but his campaigns in Syria and Anatolia met with failure and he died in 884 after return from a failed siege of Tarsus the year before.

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