Jawhar enters Egypt with al-Muizz’s army
Ibn Kathir reports that Abu al-Husayn Jawhar entered Egypt with a large army sent by the Fatimid al-Muizz in Shaʿban AH 358.
What this does and does not establish
Arabic Wikisource revision 77164, Ibn Kathir’s retrospective annal. The passage explicitly names Egypt; it does not specify an entry city. Neighboring line 20 describes the entry as unopposed. No contradictory account of this entry appears in the supplied annal.
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- Region
- Northern Africa
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- Tuesday, thirteen nights remaining of Shaʿban, AH 358
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Examined kathir358.wikitext lines 1–38: the title and section heading at lines 4 and 10 explicitly identify AH 358 in words; line 18 supplies the entry’s weekday and month-relative date, and line 20 confirms the completed entry. Examined ah-358.txt lines 1–14: line 9 places Shaʿban AH 358 within Julian 20 June–18 July 969, or 17 June–21 July with the supplied ±3-day buffer. That entire conservative interval falls in Julian AD 969; no exact day conversion is required. Original quotation begins at line 18, character 691.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya
Ibn Kathir
Quoted text (Arabic)
دخل أبو الحسين جوهر القائد الرومي في جيش كثيف من جهة المعز الفاطمي إلى ديار مصر يوم الثلاثاء لثلاث عشرة بقيت من شعبانAI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Abu al-Husayn Jawhar, the Roman commander, entered the lands of Egypt with a large army from the Fatimid al-Muizz on Tuesday, with thirteen nights remaining of Shaʿban.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, part XI, annal AH 358 https://ar.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=77164 Public-domain historical original. Wikisource contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Attribute the fixed transcription and share adapted excerpts alike. Project English translation.
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