Musa ibn al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi

Musa ibn al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi (died 1192) was the son of the Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi (executed 1128) who wrote a biography of his father. It survives only in fragments quoted by later authors, but is a key source for the history of early 12th-century Egypt, especially for unique details such as court ceremonies.[1] When al-Ma'mun was raised to the vizierate in 1122, Musa and his three brothers received robes of honour from the caliph.[2] Al-Ma'mun also tried to ensure his sons in the case of his own death, having Caliph al-Amir pledge to look after them should he die.[3] Ibn al-Bata' survived his father's downfall and execution,[4] and died in 1192.[5]

"Ibn al-Ma'mun" redirects here. For the son of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun, see al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun.

The fragments were collected and published by A. F. Sayyid in Passages de la Chronique d’Egypte d’Ibn al-Maʾmūn, Cairo 1983.[6]

References
  1. Halm 2014, pp. 133, 143, 149.
  2. Halm 2014, pp. 146, 150, 163–164.
  3. Halm 2014, p. 147.
  4. Halm 2014, p. 165.
  5. Halm 2014, p. 164.
  6. Halm 2014, p. 371 (note 149), 397.

Sources
  • Halm, Heinz (2014). Kalifen und Assassinen: Ägypten und der vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge, 1074–1171 [Caliphs and Assassins: Egypt and the Near East at the Time of the First Crusades, 1074–1171] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. doi:10.17104/9783406661648-1. ISBN 978-3-406-66163-1.
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