- The
Zengid or
Zangid dynasty (Arabic: الدولة الزنكية romanized: al-Dawla al-Zinkia) was an
Atabegate of the
Seljuk Empire created in 1127. It
formed a...
- (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...
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uncle Shirkuh, a
general 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...
- the
chief threat to the
Crusaders from the east and
north became the
Zengids. The
conflict was
generally fought between European Crusaders and the Seljuk...
- 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...
-
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...
- As-Salih Ismaʿil al-Malik (1163–1181) was the
Zengid emir of
Damascus and emir of
Aleppo in 1174, the son of Nur ad-Din. He was only
eleven years old when...
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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...
-
leading the
Zengid dynasty during the
Crusader period in the TV series. He and
Saladin will be portra**** as
serving as
commanders under the
Zengid dynasty...
