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ʿAlāʾ Ad-Dīn Al-Baṣīr
ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr (, died 1294) was a mamluk who became an emir. He was a supervisor of Jerusalem's waqf charitable endowments () and inspector of the Two Noble Sanctuaries () Noble Sanctuary, of Jerusalem and Ibrahimi Mosque, Hebron. He lived during the final years of the Ayyūbid dynasty (under aṣ-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn, aṣ-Ṣāliḥ) and the beginning of the Mamluk Sultanate, Mamlūk dynasty (under Baybars and Qalāwūn). Names * ʿAlā ad-Dīn al-Baṣīr (): is a nickname that means "astute, insightful" (). The nickname also becomes () and / () in placenames. * ʿAlā ad-Dīn Aydughdī ibn ʿAbdallāh aṣ-Ṣaliḥī an-Najmī (): is a nisba (onomastics), nisba (noun + ), meaning he was a mamluk of aṣ-Ṣāliḥ Najm ad-Dīn, an Ayyūbid emir. * ʿAlā ad-Dīn Aydughdī ar-Ruknī (): may refer to Baybars (), a Mamlūk sultan whom he served. p.198 "quant à Rukni, il se rapporte peut-être à Baibars, qui était surnommé Rukn al-dīn." He is not to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Names
A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a ''specific'' individual human. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical meaning as well) and is, when consisting of only one word, a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes called "common names" or (obsolete) "general names". A name can be given to a person, place, or thing; for example, parents can give their child a name or a scientist can give an element a name. Etymology The word ''name'' comes from Old English ''nama''; cognate with Old High German (OHG) ''namo'', Sanskrit (''nāman''), Latin ''Roman naming conventions, nomen'', Greek language, Greek (''onoma''), and Persian language, Persian (''nâm''), from the Proto-In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
