- Asad ad-Dīn
Shīrkūh bin Shādhī (Kurdish: ئەسەدەدین شێرکۆ, romanized: Esed El-Dîn Şêrko; Arabic: أسد الدين شيركوه بن شاذي), also
known as
Shirkuh, or Şêrko...
- a
Zengid army
under Shirkuh, both
hoped to take the
control of
Egypt over from the
Fatimid Caliphate.
Saladin served as
Shirkuh’s highest-ranking officer...
-
Shirkuh or Shir Kuh or
ShirKooh (Persian: شيركوه) in Iran may
refer to: Shir Kuh,
Gilan Shirkuh, Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh,
Gilan province Shirkuh-e Chahardeh...
- ad-Din Abu
Abdallah Muhammad ibn Asad ad-Din
Shirkuh (sometimes
referred to as Nasr ad-Din ibn
Shirkuh and al-Malik al-Qahir) was the
Kurdish Ayyubid...
- part of the
Fatimid Caliphate but held by
Saladin on
behalf of his uncle,
Shirkuh.
Despite the
small number of
troops he had with him and the
dubious support...
- of Jerusalem.
Shawar then
argued with
Shirkuh, and
allied with the
Crusader king,
Amalric I, who
attacked Shirkuh at Bilbeis, in August–October 1164. The...
-
during Shirkuh's invasion and
Shawar was
restored as vizier.
Shawar immediately expelled Shirkuh and
allied with Amalric, who
arrived to
besiege Shirkuh at...
- ad-Din sent
Shirkuh back to
Egypt as well, and upon his
arrival Amalric retreated. In
January 1169
Shirkuh had
Shawar ********inated.
Shirkuh became vizier...
- vizier, from
December 1162
until his ********ination in 1169 by the
general Shirkuh, the
uncle of the ****ure
Ayyubid leader Saladin, with whom he was engaged...
-
general Shirkuh to
counter the Crusaders. For a while,
Shawar pla**** the
Crusaders and
Syrians against one another, but in
January 1169,
Shirkuh overthrew...
