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Shawar
Shawar was an Arab Fatimid vizier from an administrative family of the Sa'd tribe who served long at the Egyptian court, becoming vizier three times …
Timeline
- 1141–1150Cairo · EgyptIn the 1140s Shawar held administrative posts in the Fatimid court in Cairo, accumulating experience in finance and state affairs. At this time Caliph al-Hafiz was elderly and viziers changed frequently, and Shawar, as a representative of Arab bureaucrats, gradually rose to prominence amid factional competition.
- 1160–1161Cairo · EgyptIn 1160 Shawar was first appointed vizier, but was promptly driven out by Dirgham in a palace coup, fleeing to Syria to seek Zangid and Ayyubid military support, thus initiating a vicious cycle of Fatimid late-period viziers and outside armed intervention in Egyptian politics.
Sources
- Shawar — M. Canard https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/shawar-SIM_6966
- The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 1: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517 — Carl F. Petry (1998)