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427: 441: 413: 239:, were wounded, but not killed, giving time to for his guard to extricate them to the vizierial palace and kill many of their assailants. In retaliation, Ruzzik had Sitt al-Qusur brought before him and strangled her with her own veil. When his father died shortly after, he succeeded him as vizier. 228:), whose father Yusuf was one of the brothers of al-Zafir executed by Abbas on the very day al-Fa'iz had been raised to the throne. With a minor once again on the throne, Ibn Ruzzik's position was secured, and was strengthened further when he forced the young caliph to marry his daughter. 235:, palace eunuchs, and commanders of the Black African troops to kill Ibn Ruzzik in the corridor leading to the caliph's audience chamber. In the event, the attack was badly executed. Both Ibn Ruzzik and his son, 535: 206:. Sitt al-Qusur paid a large amount to have both of them killed; Nasr was reportedly mutilated and killed by being beaten to death by the palace women with their 550: 511: 464: 540: 485: 172:, as caliph, and the execution of two of al-Zafir's brothers, Yusuf and Jibril, whom Abbas accused of the caliph's assassination. 555: 560: 210:. Sitt al-Qusur then took over the tutelage of al-Fa'iz, although real power rested with Ibn Ruzzik as the new vizier. 545: 161: 194:. Ibn Ruzzik readily agreed and marched on Cairo. In the unrest that followed, Abbas and his son tried to flee to 186:, the Fatimid princesses are said to have cut their hair and sent it in token of supplication to the governor of 169: 432: 165: 530: 236: 199: 191: 179: 426: 114: 168:, and his son, Nasr. The murder was followed by the installation of al-Zafir's five-year-old son, 500:
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However, these moves alarmed Sitt al-Qusur, who in September 1161 allied with the palace
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Sitt al-Qusur immediately sought revenge against the vizier, and contacted even the
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Sitt al-Qusur was a younger daughter of the eleventh
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Index

Cairo
House
Fatimid
al-Hafiz
Ismaili Shia
Arabic
lit.
Fatimid
al-Hafiz
al-Zafir
Fatimid caliph
al-Hafiz
al-Zafir
vizier
Abbas ibn Abi al-Futuh
al-Fa'iz
Crusader
Kingdom of Jerusalem
Cairo
Asyut
Tala'i ibn Ruzzik
Syria
Crusaders
Dead Sea
clogs
epileptic seizure
al-Adid
majordomo
Ruzzik ibn Tala'i
Halm 2014

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