Amīr-ākhūr-bāshī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Matthee, Rudolph P.
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Brill
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The position of amīr-ākhūr-bāshī (royal stablemaster) goes back at least to Saljūq times (r. 431-590/1040-1194). The office existed also in the ʿAbbāsid government, and under Sulṭān Baybars (r. 658-76/1260-77) it appeared in Mamlūk Egypt, where it included responsibility for relations with Bedouin tribes. The amīr-ākhūr-bāshī existed under the Aq-Qūyunlū, the Turkmen "White Sheep" dynasty (r. 798-914/1396-1508), as well. The Tīmūrids-a Turkic dynasty descended from the Mongol conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane, r. 771-807/1370-1405), which