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Thenceforth Damascus was given to Saladin. Saladin took control of Biladu-Sham but Saif ud-Din wanted to take over Aleppo, so he sent his brother Izz ad-Din Mas'ud at the head of an army to fight Saladin: they met in an area near Hama called Kron Hama (Arabic: قرون حماه) where Saif ud-Din was defeated in the Battle of the Horns of Hama.
Sayf al-Din Ghazi I (Arabic: سيف الدين غازي, romanized: Sayf ad-Dīn Ghāzī, died 1149) was the Emir of Mosul from 1146 to 1149, who fought in the Second Crusade. He was the eldest son of Imad al-Din Zengi of Mosul , and the elder brother of Nur ad-Din .
The siege began in December 1187; the place was defended by well-supplied, tough survivors from earlier sieges. [2] Saladin, who was preoccupied with the Siege of Tyre, sent his general, Saif al-Din Mahmud, to occupy a position near the castle, but the garrison intercepted two Muslim caravans, one laden with booty taken by Saladin.
Saladin agreed to a truce with Bohemond in return for Muslim prisoners being held by him and then he gave A'zaz to Alam ad-Din Suleiman and Aleppo to Saif ad-Din al-Yazkuj—the former was an emir of Aleppo who joined Saladin and the latter was a former mamluk of Shirkuh who helped rescue him from the assassination attempt at A'zaz.
Sayf al-Din al-Amidi (died 1233), Islamic jurist; Saifuddin Aibak (died 1236), governor of Bengal; Saif ad-Dīn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr b. Nāṣir ad-Dīn Muḥammad, or just Al-Adil II (died 1248), Ayyubid sultan of Egypt; Saif ad-Din Qutuz (died 1260), Mamluk sultan of Egypt; Saif ad-Dīn Qalawun aṣ-Ṣāliḥī (c. 1222–1290 ...
Tughtakin was the youngest son of Najm ad-Din Ayyub and his brothers included Saladin, the founder of the Ayyubid Empire and al-Adil, the later sultan of Egypt.After Saladin overthrew the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt, Tughtakin acquired lands in the Adawiya district near Cairo that belonged to Christian churches, most likely through force.
Saladin's successes alarmed Saif ad-Din, Zengid ruler of Mosul. As head of the Zengids, he regarded Syria and Mesopotamia as his family estate and was angered when Saladin attempted to usurp his dynasty's holdings. Saif ad-Din mustered a large army and dispatched it to Aleppo, whose defenders anxiously had awaited them.
Nur ad-Din was the second son of Imad al-Din Zengi, the Turkoman atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, [4] who was a devoted enemy of the crusader presence in Syria.After the assassination of his father in 1146, Nur ad-Din and his older brother Saif ad-Din Ghazi I divided the kingdom between themselves, with Nur ad-Din governing Aleppo and Saif ad-Din Ghazi establishing himself in Mosul.