- The
Zengid or
Zangid dynasty, also
referred to as the
Atabegate of Mosul,
Aleppo and
Damascus (Arabic: أتابكة الموصل وحلب ودمشق), or the
Zengid State...
-
mercenary commander in
service of the
Zengid dynasty,
Saladin was sent to
Fatimid Egypt in 1164, on the
orders of the
Zengid ruler Nur ad-Din. With
their original...
- (Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb), and
ruler of Erbil. He
served both the
Zengid and
Ayyubid rulers of
Syria and Egypt. He pla**** a
pivotal role in Saladin's...
- ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a
Turkoman member of the
Zengid dynasty, who
ruled the
Syrian province (Shām) of the
Seljuk Empire. He reigned...
- 1154, when it was
taken by the
ruler of Aleppo, Nur ed-Din,
founder of the
Zengid dynasty. The
Burids lost to the
Crusaders in the
battle of Marj al-Saffar...
-
victory over the
Zengids,
which left
Saladin in
control of Damascus, Baalbek, and Homs. Gökböri
commanded the
right wing of the
Zengid army,
which broke...
- son Kara Aslan. Kara
Aslan allied with
Joscelin II of
Edessa against the
Zengids, and
while Joscelin was away in 1144,
Zengi recaptured Edessa, the first...
- Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the
namesake and
founder of the
Zengid dynasty of atabegs. Zengi's father, Aq
Sunqur al-Hajib,
governor of Aleppo...
-
rivals to the north,
Aleppo and Mosul, were
united under the rule of the
Zengid dynasty.
Damascus had
maintained an
unsteady alliance with the Crusader...
-
accompany his many
historical works and
worked as a man of
letters during the
Zengid and
Ayyubid period.
Muhammad was born in Isfahan, to a
Persian family, in...
