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Munīr al-Dawla

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Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1089 CE
Social role
State official

Description / Bio

Munīr al-Dawla al-Juyūshī was the Fatimid governor of Tyre who incited a revolt against the Fatimids in the coastal areas of Palestine like Jubayl and Acre, advancing further south, including Beirut, Sidon, and Tyre. His rebellion together with that of Nāṣir al-Dawla was quashed by the state.

Select bibliography

  1. Marina Rustow, Heresy and the Politics of Community: the Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).
Yusuf Umrethwala, "Munīr al-Dawla," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/munir-al-dawla/, accessed April 24, 2025.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/munir-al-dawla/