Ibrāhīm Bey Abū Shanab - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Hathaway, Jane
Leiden
Brill
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Ibrāhīm Bey Abū Shanab (d. 1130/1718) was an influential sancak (sanjaq) bey in Ottoman Egypt during the late eleventh/seventeenth and early twelfth/eighteenth centuries. A Bosnian, he presumably belonged to the Bosnian Muslim population who volunteered to serve in the devşirme , the Ottoman institution based on the practice of recruiting members of the population of the Balkans and Anatolia for service in the military and the palace; ordinarily, the devşirme targeted Christian subjects. Nothing is known about his life before he arrived in Egypt around 1067/1656, accompanying