The Tulunid Emirate: Its Rise and Fall (254-292 AH)

Abstract

The Abbasid Caliphate in the second Abbasid era of the period (232-334 AH) passed a state of weakness and division after the caliphate took over the weak caliphs of little wisdom were not worthy of the caliphate preoccupied with fun and pleasure, so they dropped the prestige of the caliphate and kept the Arabs away from the centers of power and the army, and presented the Turkish elements and handed them the reins of affairs and the army, so they made a mistake, and that most of the leaders of the Turks weakened the caliphs and persecuted them, and this is what encouraged some princes of the Abbasid state parties to declare separation from the center and establish separate emirates or states, but their religious association He remained linked to the caliphate, so emirates arose in the East and the Maghreb, and from these emirates the Tulunid emirate, which was founded by the Turkish commander (Ahmed bin Tulun) in Egypt and the Levant, so he was able to reform its conditions after the caliphate was unable to do so.