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  "ar": "ظهير الدين طغركين الأتابك",
  "en": "Zahir al-Din Tughtakin the Atabeg"
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  "ar": "طغركين الأتابك، لقبه ظهير الدين، من موالي تاج الدولة تتش؛ لما توفي دقاق بدمشق سنة 497هـ استقل بالملك وخطب لأخيه تلتاش صبياً مراهقاً ففر تلتاش إلى بعلبك واستبد طغركين، وحارب الفرنج فهزم القمص الغائر على دمشق وملك حصن رمسة من طرابلس، وناجز ملوك الإفرنج وقمامصتهم بمرج الصفر آخر سنة 520هـ فصرع عن فرسه ثم استمات رجالة التركمان حتى قتلوا رجالة الإفرنج ونهبوا عسكرهم، وتوفي في صفر سنة 522هـ وكان حسن السيرة مؤثراً للعدل محباً في الجهاد، فولي ابنه تاج الدولة بوري.",
  "en": "Tughtakin the Atabeg, laqab Zahir al-Din, a mamluk of Taj al-Dawla Tutush; on Duqaq's death in 497 AH he took sole power, proclaimed the infant Tultash then ruled outright when the boy fled to Baalbek — he broke the qummus raiding Damascus, took the Ramsa fort of Tripoli, and met the Frankish kings and counts at Marj al-Saffar late in 520, where he was unhorsed but the Turkman foot fought to the death, massacred the Frankish infantry and looted their camp; he died in Safar 522, remembered as just, upright and devoted to jihad, and his son Taj al-Dawla Buri succeeded."
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   "note": "توفي في صفر سنة 522هـ؛ التحويل مشتق.",
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   "note": "توفي في صفر سنة 522هـ؛ التحويل مشتق.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ابن خلدون، العبر — دولة بني تتش، الحرب بين طغركين والفرنج ووفاته، ص1327-1328 (طبعة هيليوبوليس)",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "طغركين الأتابك، لقبه ظهير الدين، من موالي تاج الدولة تتش. يذكر ابن خلدون أنه لما توفي دقاق بدمشق سنة 497هـ استقل بالملك، وخطب لتلتاش صبياً، ففر تلتاش إلى بعلبك وانفرد طغركين بالحكم. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحرب مع الفرنج",
     "markdown": "يروي ابن خلدون أنه حارب الفرنج فهزم القمص الذي أغار على دمشق، وملك حصن رمسة من طرابلس. ثم التقى ملوك الإفرنج وقمامصتهم بمرج الصفر آخر سنة 520هـ، فسقط عن فرسه، ثم قاتل رجالة التركمان حتى قتلوا رجالة الإفرنج ونهبوا عسكرهم. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي في صفر سنة 522هـ، ويصفه ابن خلدون بأنه حسن السيرة مؤثر للعدل محب للجهاد. وولي بعده ابنه تاج الدولة بوري. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar} انظر [[polity/burid-dynasty|الدولة البورية]]."
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Tughtakin the atabeg, whose title was Zahir al-Din, one of the mamluks of Taj al-Dawla Tutush. Ibn Khaldun reports that when Duqaq died in Damascus in the year 497 AH, he took power on his own, and proclaimed the sermon for Tutush's young son, but Tutush fled to Ba'albak and Tughtakin alone ruled {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Wars with the Franks",
     "markdown": "Ibn Khaldun reports that he fought the Franks and defeated the count who raided Damascus, and took the fortress of Ramsa of Tripoli. Then the kings of the Franks and their counts met him at Marj al-Safar at the end of the year 520 AH. He fell from his horse, then fought with the Turkmen foot-soldiers until they killed the Frankish foot-soldiers and plundered their camp {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death",
     "markdown": "He died in Safar of the year 522 AH. Ibn Khaldun describes him as good in conduct, favouring justice and loving jihad. His son Taj al-Dawla Buri succeeded him {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}. See [[polity/burid-dynasty|the Burid dynasty]]."
    }
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    "id": "person/tughtakin-zahir-al-din",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
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