Kutayfāt, also known as Abu Ali Ahmad ibn al-Afdal or al-Afdal Kutayfāt, (d. 1131) was
vizier
A vizier (; ; ) is a high-ranking political advisor or Minister (government), minister in the Near East. The Abbasids, Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was at first merely a help ...
and ''amīr al-juyūsh'' (commander of the armies) to
al-Hafiz, Caliph of Egypt, from 1130 to 1131. He seized power by imprisoning al-Hafiz but was murdered by
Fatimid
The Fatimid Caliphate (; ), also known as the Fatimid Empire, was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimid dynasty, Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty. Spanning a large area of North Africa ...
forces loyal to the caliph. Kutayfāt was the son of
al-Afdal Shahanshah and grandson of
Badr al-Jamali, and so the third generation of Armenians serving as Fatimid vizier.
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Encyclopedia Islamica', Farhad Daftary and Wilferd Madelung, editors, Leyde-Boston, Brill, 2008
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* Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ''The First Crusaders, 1095-1131'', Cambridge University Press, London, 1997, pgs. 180–2, 186-7
* {{EI2 , last = Stern , first = S. M. , authorlink = , title = al-Afḍal, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad, surnamed Kutayfāt , volume = 1 , page = 216 , doi =10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0339
Viziers of the Fatimid Caliphate
1131 deaths
12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate
Leaders who took power by coup
People murdered in Egypt
Assassinated viziers
People assassinated in the 12th century
Egyptian people of Armenian descent
Armenian Shia Muslims