al-Aḥdab, Muḥammad b. Wāṣil - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Garcin, Jean-Claude
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Muḥammad b. Wāṣil al-Aḥdab (the hunchback) was a leader of the Bedouin ʿArak, a Southern Arab tribe. In the mid-eighth/fourteenth century, he led a rebellion against the Mamlūks and then reached an accomodation with them. His date of death is unknown. To understand the role played by al-Aḥdab (Garcin, Centre musulman , 381-409; Garcin, Note , 153) with regard to the Bedouins, we must consider the shift from the cautious politics followed in Upper Egypt by Sulṭān Baybars (r. 658-76/1260-77), the founder of the