al-Baṭāʾiḥī, Abū ʿAbdallāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Walker, Paul E.
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Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abī Shujāʿ Fātik al-Baṭāʾiḥī (more accurately Ibn al-Baṭāʾiḥī; d. 522/1128), known as al-Maʾmūn b. al-Baṭāʾiḥī, was wazīr to the Fāṭimid caliph al-Āmir (r. 495-524/1101-30). He rose to this position in 515/1122, following the assassination of the wazīr al-Afḍal, and he held it until 519/1125, when he was himself arrested and imprisoned. His wazīrate was especially important and noteworthy, and his evident skill at governing was held in high regard then and later. Curiously, he