Shahrazur

Who holds it

Title

governor for Gokbori

Confidence

low

Wikipedia 'Gokbori' (Erbil and Shahrazur received 1190); TDV 'Begteginliler'.

Lord in 1200

Gokbori's (governor not pinned).

How things stand that morning

Gokbori's.

Charter

No charter or commune: the town is governed by its lord's castellan (wali), its judge (qadi) and the market inspector (muhtasib); notables (a'yan) speak for it.

Council

No town council; notables and the qadi deal with the lord's governor.

Communities

Kurds of the plain and hills.

Militia

Garrison of the lord's soldiers; townsmen's own militia (ahdath) not recorded here.

Trade and crafts

Road to Persia; grain of the plain.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Tenure from 1190; town detail thin; site identified with Yasin Tepe (approximate).

Primary sources for Irbil

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.

• The Complete History, Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir (about 1200 to 1231, at Mosul). The widest Muslim narrative for the years 596 to 597 AH (1199 to 1201): al-Adil's entry into Cairo and his taking of the sultanate from his nephew al-Mansur Muhammad early in 1200, the quarrels of the Ayyubid princes at Damascus, Aleppo and Hama, the Nile failure and the great famine of Egypt, Mosul under Nur al-Din Arslan Shah and the Jazira under Gokbori and the Artuqids, Baghdad under the caliph al-Nasir, the Khwarazmshah Tekish's death in 1200 and Muhammad's accession, the Ghurid wars in Khurasan, the Eldiguzids and Georgia, the Almohads in the west, and the Seljuks of Rum in passing. Read online
• The Mirror of Time, on the History of Notables, Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (Shams al-Din Yusuf) (about 1240 to 1256, at Damascus). A Damascene preacher's year-by-year chronicle with obituaries, written by a grandson of the Baghdad scholar Ibn al-Jawzi, so it carries both the Baghdad view (the caliph al-Nasir and his court) and the Damascus view (al-Adil's court, the famine refugees of 1200, prices, the plague of 1201). Read online