Muschrif

The mushrif was a high Islamic state official .

etymology

The Arabic word مشرف (mušrif), with the article al-mušrif , literally means overseer , controller .

description

The mushrif was an administrative officer in various Islamic states. This office existed primarily under the Abbassid caliphate , but was also used in its successor states such as the Ghaznavids , Seljuks , Ayyubids and Mameluks . But it was also to be found in the Maghreb and even on the Indian subcontinent in the Sultanate of Delhi . The dual function of the office was not handled in the same way everywhere. On the Muslim Menorca the mushrif was a tax collector such as B. Abu Uthman Said ibn Hakam al-Quraschi , the later Almohad Raʾīs of Menorca.

literature

• Encyclopaedia of Islam , Brill Publishers, Leiden, entry "Mušrif".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corriente, Federico: Diccionario árabe-español . Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura 1977, ISBN 84-600-0842-8 , p. 809 .