{
 "id": "event/qaraqush-takes-tripoli-568",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "qaraqush-takes-tripoli-568",
 "label": {
  "ar": "ملك قراقوش طرابلس الغرب",
  "en": "Qaraqush's conquest of Tripoli (568 AH)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة ثمان وستين وخمسمائة سار طائفة من الترك من ديار مصر مع قراقوش — مملوك تقي الدين عمر ابن أخي صلاح الدين — إلى جبال نفوسة، فاجتمع به مسعود بن زمام المعروف بمسعود البلاط وكان خارجاً عن طاعة عبد المؤمن، فاتفقا وكثر جمعهما ونزلا على طرابلس الغرب فحاصراها وضيقا على أهلها ثم فتحت، فاستولى عليها قراقوش وأسكن أهله قصرها وملك كثيراً من بلاد إفريقية ما خلا المهدية وسفاقس وقفصة وتونس وما والاها، وحكم على تلك البلاد بمساعدة العرب بما جُبلت عليه من تخريب ونهب وقطع أشجار، وجمع أموالاً عظيمة جعلها بمدينة قابس حتى حدثته نفسه بالاستيلاء على إفريقية كلها لبعد صاحبها أبي يعقوب يوسف بن عبد المؤمن عنها {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}.",
  "en": "568 AH: a Turkish corps out of Egypt under Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush — mamluk of Saladin's nephew Taqi al-Din Umar — joined the Nafusa-mountain amir Mas'ud ibn Zammam 'al-Balat', then in revolt against the Almohads; together they besieged Tripoli until it opened, and Qaraqush installed his household in its palace and ruled most of Ifriqiya bar Mahdiyya, Sfax, Gafsa and Tunis, amassing a treasury at Gabes and nursing designs on the whole country {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/crusades-ayyubid-mamluk"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "conquest",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "hijri": "0568",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "سنة ٥٦٨هـ {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}.",
    "sources": [
     "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
    ]
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ — ابن الأثير، مسح kamilt00_201908، ص 47",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-kamil-562-629-07"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يروي ابن الأثير في «الكامل» أنه في سنة 568هـ سارت طائفة من الترك من ديار مصر مع [[person/sharaf-al-din-qaraqush|قراقوش]]، مملوك تقي الدين عمر ابن أخي صلاح الدين، إلى جبال نفوسة. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "التحالف والحصار",
     "markdown": "اجتمع به [[person/masud-ibn-zammam|مسعود بن زمام]] المعروف بمسعود البلاط، وكان خارجاً عن طاعة عبد المؤمن. فاتفقا وكثر جمعهما، ونزلا على [[place/atrabulus|طرابلس الغرب]] فحاصراها وضيّقا على أهلها ثم فتحت. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بعد الفتح",
     "markdown": "استولى قراقوش على المدينة وأسكن أهله قصرها، وملك كثيراً من بلاد إفريقية ما عدا المهدية وسفاقس وقفصة وتونس وما والاها. ويذكر المصنف أنه حكمها بمساعدة العرب بتخريب ونهب وقطع أشجار. وجمع أموالاً عظيمة جعلها بقابس، وحدّثته نفسه بالاستيلاء على إفريقية كلها لبعد صاحبها أبي يعقوب يوسف بن عبد المؤمن عنها. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/qaraqush-takes-tripoli-568",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Athir, in *al-Kamil*, reports that in 568 AH a group of Turks from the lands of Egypt set out with [[person/sharaf-al-din-qaraqush|Qaraqush]], the mamluk of Taqi al-Din Umar, nephew of Saladin, toward the mountains of Nafusa. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The alliance and the siege",
     "markdown": "He was joined by [[person/masud-ibn-zammam|Masud ibn Zammam]], known as Masud al-Balat, who had broken away from the obedience of Abd al-Mu'min. They agreed, their numbers grew, and they camped before [[place/atrabulus|Tripoli of the West]], besieged it and tightened the pressure on its people until it was taken. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "After the conquest",
     "markdown": "Qaraqush took control of the city and settled his household in its palace. He ruled much of the lands of Ifriqiya, except al-Mahdiyya, Sfax, Gafsa, Tunis and their surroundings. The author says that he ruled with the help of the Arabs, through destruction, plunder and the cutting of trees. He gathered great wealth, which he placed at Gabes, and he was tempted to seize all of Ifriqiya, since its ruler, Abu Yaqub Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min, was far away. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 47}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/qaraqush-takes-tripoli-568",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
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   "to": "person/masud-ibn-zammam",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sharaf-al-din-qaraqush",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/atrabulus",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
   ]
  }
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  "person/masud-ibn-zammam",
  "person/sharaf-al-din-qaraqush",
  "event/conquest-of-tripoli-libya",
  "place/atrabulus"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}