Ahmad ibn tulun biography of michael

Emir of Egypt and Syria from to

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Ahmad ibn tulun biography of michael

For the Damascene historian, see Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Tulun.

Ahmad ibn Tulun (Arabic: أحمد بن طولون, romanized:&#;Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn&#;; c. 20 September – 10 May ) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between and Originally a Turkic slave-soldier, in Ibn Tulun was sent to Egypt as governor by the Abbasid caliph.

Within four years he had established himself as a virtually independent ruler by evicting the caliphal fiscal agent, Ibn al-Mudabbir, taking over control of Egypt's finances, and establishing a large military force personally loyal to himself.

This process was facilitated by the volatile political situation in the Abbasid court and the preoccupation of the Abbasid regent, al-Muwaffaq, with the wars against the Persian Saffarids and the Zanj Rebellion. Ibn Tulun also established an efficient administration in Egypt.

After reforms to the tax system, repairs to