Muhammad ibn Tughj

Dinar printed in Palestine under al-Ichschid 944 with his name and title "Mohammed al-Ichschid", together with that of the caliph

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ichschid ( Arabic أبو بكر محمد بن طغج الإخشيد, DMG Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Ṭuġǧ al-Iḫšīd ; * 882 ; † 946 ) from the Ichschididen dynasty ruled virtually independent over Egypt from 935 to 946 .

Muhammad ibn Tughdsch was born in Ferghana and began his career in the Abbasid army , which mostly consisted of Turkish military slaves ( Mamluks ). After his appointment as governor of Syria (930), he was also given the administration of Egypt in 935. Since 939 he was able to rule largely independently and establish the Ichschididen dynasty. However, he continued to lean against the Abbasids in order to withstand the threat from the Fatimids from Ifrīqiya .

In order to improve his power base in the fight against the Fatimids, Muhammad occupied Palestine , the Hejaz and Syria as far as Aleppo between 942 and 944 . However, as early as 945 there was an agreement with the Hamdanids on the division of power in Syria. After his death in 946, the eunuch Kafur took over the reign of the minor heir to the throne (946–968).

literature

• JL Bacharach: The career of Muḥammad b. Ṭughj al-Ikhshīd, a tenth-century governor of Egypt , in Speculum 50 (1975), pp. 586-612

predecessor	Office	successor
Abbasids	Ruler of Egypt ( Ichschidid Dynasty ) 935–946	Unugur