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Monthly Archives: April 2020

Emirs

Yashbak al-Ḥamzāwī (d. 855/1451)

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Emblem description: Upper field with a pen-box, central field with a cup charged with two cups between a pair of horns (or daggers?), lower field with a cup

Known emblem:

  • A body of a candlestick

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 251

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Damurdāsh al-Ashrafī

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Emblem description: Upper field with a cup, central field with a cup between a pair of horns, lower field with two cups

Known emblem:

  • A lunch-box (present location unknown)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 113-114

Emir
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Khushqadam (d. 894/1489)

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Emblem description: Red upper field with a white buqja, white central field with a black cup between a red pair of horns, black lower field with a white cup

Known emblems:

  • A lunch-box
  • A madrasa (Cairo)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 142-143

Emir
Emirs

Timrāz al-Mu’ayyadī (d. 841/1437)

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Emblem description: Upper field with a buqja, central field with a cup charged with two cups, lower field with two buqja-s

Known emblem:

  • A maqām (Nabi Rubin, near Jaffa)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 230-231

Emir
Emirs

Jānībak

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Emblem description: Upper field with a pen-box, central field with a cup between two buqja-s, lower field with a fleur-de-lis

Known emblem:

  • A tray (present location unknown)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 130

Emir
Emirs

Muḥammad al-Malaṭī

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Emblem description: Upper field with two buqja-s, central and lower fields with a cup

Known emblem:

  • A basin (present location unknown)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 161

Emir
Sultans

Shaykh (815/1412-824/1421)

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Here is a list of objects and monuments displaying the emblem of sultan Shaykh, both during his times as emir and sultan.

Emiral emblem description: Blank upper field, central field with a cup charged with two cups, lower field with a cup

Known emblem:

  • East door of the main mosque (Damascus)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 200-202

EmirJamdarKhassakiSaqiSultan
Emirs

Nawrūz al-Ḥāfiẓī (d. 817/1414)

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Emblem description: Upper field with two buqja-s, central and lower field with a cup

Known emblems:

  • The main mosque (Damascus)
  • The Citadel (Damascus)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 172-174

EmirKhassaki
Emirs

Damurdāsh al-Muḥammadī (d. 818/1415)

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Emblem description: Blank upper field, central and lower fields with a cup

Known emblem:

  • A mosque (Aleppo)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 114-115

EmirSilahdar
Emirs

Yūsuf al-Ẓāhirī

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Emblem description: Blank upper field, central field with a cup crossed by a scimitar, lower field with a cup

Known emblem:

  • A slab of marble (Hama)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 258-259

Emir
Emirs

Duqmāq (d. 808/1405)

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Emblem description: Blank upper field, central and lower fields with a cup

Known emblem:

  • City gate (Aleppo)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 115-116

EmirKhassaki
Emirs

Ṣalāḥ al-dīn b. Samrī

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Emblem description: A tamga on a unique field

Known emblem:

  • A candlestick

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 195

Emir
Emirs

Abū-l-Fidā (672/1273-732/1331)

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Emblem description: Two fields. Blank upper field (or self-colored?), lower field with bends (10 or 12) of various colors in following sequence: gold, red, gold, black…

Known emblem:

  • A pen-box (present location unknown)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 46-47

Emir
Emirs

Ibrāhīm b. ‘Aqīl

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Emblem description: Two fields. Blank upper field, lower field with a crescent

Known emblem:

  • A tray (present location unknown)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 122

Emir
Emirs

Kujkun (d. 739/1338-9)

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Emblem description: Three fields

Known emblem:

  • A mausoleum (Damascus)

Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, 1933, p. 145-146

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