Ahmad ibn Mubarak
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Ahmad ibn Mubarak (Arabic: أحمد بن مبارك, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Mubārak) was the seventh Tayyibi Isma'ili Da'i al-Mutlaq in Yemen, from 1229 to his death in 1230.[1]
Life
[edit]Ahmad was the son of Mubarak, brother of the fifth Da'i al-Mutlaq, Ali. Upon assuming office, he dispatched emissaries to various places in Yemen and India. Sanaa remained his seat of administration and he maintained cordial relations with various rulers in Yemen.
He was succeeded by al-Husayn, the son of Ali ibn Muhammad.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Daftary 2007, p. 267.
Sources
[edit]- Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.