No. 9578
Burhan al-Din Ibrahim al-Mahalli
died 1403MerchantAfrica · 1403Most named place: Syria (approximate)
Burhan al-Din was a member of the Karimi merchant guild that cultivated commercial relations with Yemen, India, Southeast Asia and China.
After the death of Zaki al-Din in 1385, he took the title of leadership (ri’asat al-tujjar) exclusively until he died in 1403. Al-Marqrizi related that Burhan al-Din al-Mahalli was a large scale Karimi merchant who traveled to Syria and Yemen many times.
He was one of the three prominent merchants who supplied Sultan Barquq with 1,000,000 dirhams for the war against Timur when latter attempted to invade Syria in 1394.