al-Hasa

Who holds it

Name

Shukr ibn Mansur al-Uyuni

Title

Emir

Since

see lord record

Born

not pinned

Family

not pinned

Confidence

low

Arabic accounts after Ibn al-Muqarrab's diwan.

Lord in 1200

Shukr ibn Mansur al-Uyuni with his brother Abd Allah

Overlord

Shukr ibn Mansur al-Uyuni with his brother Abd Allah

How things stand that morning

Held by Shukr ibn Mansur and Abd Allah ibn Mansur against their cousin Muhammad ibn Ahmad of Qatif.

Wealth

Dates, rice and wheat of the springs; caravan trade; cloth.

Council

The Uyunid emir and his kinsmen of Abd al-Qays; the town's notables not pinned. Ibn al-Muqarrab, the Uyunid poet (born 572/1176), is of this town.

Communities

Arabs of Abd al-Qays and other tribes, both Sunni and Shi'i (the Shi'a strong among the oasis people), Bedouin of the Banu Amir and Uqayl around.

Fairs and markets

Date harvest in late summer.

Militia

Townsmen and kinsmen; hired Bedouin.

Walls and castle

Walled town; details not pinned.

Trade and crafts

Dates, rice and wheat of the springs; caravan trade; cloth.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Uyunid tradition only.

Primary sources for Uyunids

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Dictionary of Countries, Yaqut al-Hamawi (1224 to 1228, at Aleppo). An alphabetical gazetteer of every place Yaqut had read of or seen: he travelled as a bookseller's agent through Syria, Iraq, Persia, Khurasan and Khwarazm (about 1213 to 1220) and settled in Aleppo. Read online