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Jawdhar (Arabic: جوذر,
before 909 –
March 973),
surnamed al-Ustadh (Arabic: الأستاذ, lit. 'the Master'), was a
eunuch slave who
served the
Fatimid caliphs...
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successor and "Sword of the Imam".
Leaving the
trusted eunuch chamberlain Jawdhar to run the
government in his stead, al-Mansur took to the
field in person...
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Viziers and
regents Jawdhar Ya'qub ibn
Killis Ibn
Ammar Barjawan Sitt al-Mulk Ali ibn
Ahmad al-Jarjara'i Abu
Muhammad al-Yazuri
Rasad Nasir al-Dawla Ibn...
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household afforded them a
great amount of
political sway. One eunuch,
Jawdhar,
became hujja to Imam-Caliph al-Qa'im, a
sacred role in Shia
Islam entrusted...
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Viziers and
regents Jawdhar Ya'qub ibn
Killis Ibn
Ammar Barjawan Sitt al-Mulk Ali ibn
Ahmad al-Jarjara'i Abu
Muhammad al-Yazuri
Rasad Nasir al-Dawla Ibn...
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household afforded them a
great amount of
political sway. One eunuch,
Jawdhar,
became hujja to Imam-Caliph al-Qa'im, a
sacred role in Shia
Islam entrusted...
- and kept
secret even from
Abdallah himself, but the
elderly majordomo Jawdhar revealed the
secret when he
performed obeisance to
Abdallah before the...
- Zhou (d. 953) Hrotsvitha,
German canoness and poet (approximate date)
Jawdhar,
Fatimid general and
chief minister Karka II,
ruler of the Rashtrakuta...
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Viziers and
regents Jawdhar Ya'qub ibn
Killis Ibn
Ammar Barjawan Sitt al-Mulk Ali ibn
Ahmad al-Jarjara'i Abu
Muhammad al-Yazuri
Rasad Nasir al-Dawla Ibn...
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headed the
palace service. The main new
figure of al-Qa'im's
reign was
Jawdhar, a
palace eunuch of
Slavic (Saqaliba) origin. He
became the
steward of...
