- 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...
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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...
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clash their swords, the
Zengid army
arrives thanks to the help of
Karategin and both
armies clash in what
results in a
Zengid victory at Babein, the Crusaders...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
- al-Malik al-Afdal Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn Shādhi ibn Marwān (Arabic: الملك ألأفضل نجم الدين أيوب بن شاذي بن مروان, Kurdish: نەجمەدین ئەییووبی شادی مەڕوان...
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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...
- Ismaʿil al-Malik (Arabic: الصالح إسماعيل) (Full name: (1163–1181) was the
Zengid emir of
Damascus and emir of
Aleppo in 1174, the son of Nur ad-Din. He was...
