Turkān Shāh b. Baladkosh
Description / Bio
Turkān Shāh b. Baladkosh, Nāṣir al-Juyūsh Abū al-Mulūk b. Sulṭān al-Juyūsh was a Fatimid army general of Turkic origin. His father, Baladkosh, was part of the Turkic rebellion led by Nāṣir al-Dawla b. Ḥamdān, who incited civil war in Egypt in the 11th century. Baladkosh was killed by the forces of Badr al-Jamālī after his arrival in Egypt to dispel the crisis. Turkān Shāh, together with other Turkic soldiers, fled towards Bilād al-Shām and sought refuge in Damascus under the Seljuq commander Atsaz b. Awq al-Khwārizmī. (al-Maqrīzī, al-Muqaffā al-Kabīr, II, 340).
Life events
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al-Shidda al-ʿUẓma ()
al-Shidda al-ʿUẓma (the Great Calamity), a term coined by the Mamlūk historian al-Maqrīzī (d. 1442), refers to the catastrophic period in Egypt linked with a series of low Niles, famines, and civil war. Historians often refer to this period as the worst famine recorded in the history of Egypt and the most underdocumented period of Fatimid history.
T-S 10J10.2 (PGPID 35184), ENA NS 16.28 (PGPID 11714), T-S 8J19.27 (PGPID 7670), CUL Or.1080 J17 (PGPID 4476)