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Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Tamīm (Arabic: بهاء الدين ابن شداد; the honorific title "Bahā' ad-Dīn" means "splendor of the faith"; sometimes known as Bohadin or Boha-Eddyn [1]) (6 March 1145 – 8 November 1234) [2] was a 12th-century Arabic [3] jurist, scholar and historian notable for writing a ...
The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an eyewitness
Baha al-Din Qaraqush (died 1201), military commander under Saladin; Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145–1234), jurist and scholar, biographer of Saladin; Baha-ud-din Zakariya (c. 1170 – 1268), Sufi teacher; Baha' al-din Zuhair (1186–1258), Arabian poet; Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389), founder of Sufi Muslim order, the Naqshbandi
[68] [69] [70] In the aftermath, Saladin appointed his confidante, Baha al-Din Qaraqush, as majordomo of the caliphal palaces, thus securing control of the caliph and his court. [71] [72] [73] Deprived of any loyal troops and closely watched over in his own palace by Qaraqush, al-Adid was now completely at Saladin's mercy.
Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Saladin's aide, suggested that there was a heretical leader in Yemen who was claiming to be the messiah, and that this was the principal reason that Saladin dispatched Turanshah to conquer the region. While this is likely, it also appears 'Umara had considerable influence on Turanshah's desire to conquer Yemen and may ...
According to the Kurdish scholar and historian Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, these numbered close to 3,000. Saladin allowed many of the noblewomen of the city to leave without paying any ransom. For example, Queen Dowager Maria was allowed to leave the city with her retinue and associates, as was Queen Sibylla.
Al-Safiya means white and, indeed, the Es-Safi hill is white with the foundations of a Crusader Castle recently found at the top, called Blanchegarde. Ibn al-Athīr, one of the Arab chroniclers, mentions that Saladin intended to lay siege to a Crusader Castle in the area. [11] But Saladin's baggage train had been apparently mired. There is a ...
Ibn Shaddad can refer to: Abd al-Aziz ibn Shaddad, 12th-century Zirid chronicler; Antarah ibn Shaddad (fl. 580), pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet; Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, 12th-century jurist and biographer of Saladin; Izz al-Din ibn Shaddad, 13th-century geographer and historian; Muhammad ibn Shaddad (died 971), founder of the Kurdish Shaddadid ...