Abū Shujāʿ Ruzzīk ibn Ṭalāʾiʿ was the son of the Twelver Shi'a Armenian vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate, Tala'i ibn Ruzzik, and succeeded his father when the latter was assassinated in September 1161. He was himself overthrown by the Bedouin military commander Shawar in early 1163 and executed in August 1163.
References
- al-Imad 1990, pp. 170, 195.
- Bianquis 1995, p. 653.
- Brett 2017, pp. 287–288.
Sources
- al-Imad, Leila S. (1990). The Fatimid Vizierate (979-1172). Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. ISBN 3-922968-82-1.
- Bianquis, Thierry (1995). "Ruzzīk b. Ṭalāʾiʿ". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume VIII: Ned–Sam. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 653–654. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_6358. ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3.
- Brett, Michael (2017). The Fatimid Empire. The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-4076-8.
- Halm, Heinz (2014). Kalifen und Assassinen: Ägypten und der vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge, 1074–1171 [Caliphs and Assassins: Egypt and the Near East at the Time of the First Crusades, 1074–1171] (in German). Munich: C.H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-66163-1.
| Preceded byTala'i ibn Ruzzik | Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate September 1161 – January 1163 |
Succeeded byShawar |
- 1163 deaths
- 12th-century Armenian people
- 12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate
- Viziers of the Fatimid Caliphate
- Executed prime ministers
- Executed Armenian people
- Executed Egyptian people
- 12th-century executions
- Leaders ousted by a coup
- Egyptian people of Armenian descent
- Armenian Shia Muslims
- Muslims of the Crusades
- 1160s in the Fatimid Caliphate