Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, Egyptian ruler (born 882)

Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid

Ruler of Egypt and the Levant from 935 to 946

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ṭughj ibn Juff ibn Yiltakīn ibn Fūrān ibn Fūrī ibn Khāqān, better known by the title al-Ikhshīd after 939, was an Abbasid commander and governor who became the autonomous ruler of Egypt and parts of Syria (Levant) from 935 until his death in 946. He was the…