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The Battle of Safed and the Taking of Gaza, Banias and Shayzar in 552

وقعة صفد وفتح غزة وبانياس وشيزر سنة 552

c. 1157 CE · 552 AH

In 552 Nur al-Din routed the Franks at Safed — a great battle — and took Gaza and Banias from the Franks while Shayzar passed to him from the Banu Munqidh 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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1140115011601170 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Summary

In 552 AH Nur al-Din defeated the Franks at Safed in a great battle 1.

Conquests that followed

Nur al-Din took Gaza and Banyas from the Franks and took Shayzar from the Banu Munqidh 1.

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Had participant
Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi

People and things also explored

Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· Death of Nur al-Din Mahmud· The Frankish siege of Damietta (564 AH)· Nur al-Din Lifts the Frankish Siege of Damascus· Nūr al-Dīn besieges al-Karak· Nūr al-Dīn takes Mosul and confirms Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī upon it· Nur al-Din Takes the Fortress of Safita from the Franks in 561· the hidden estrangement between Nūr al-Dīn and Saladin

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 641
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Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt

Al-Imad al-Katib: Salah al-Din opened the year 567 with Egypt's greatest obedience — the Abbasid khutba, first Jumu'a at Fustat's mosque, the second at Cairo; al-Adid died that Ashura, and the palace's treasures sold for ten years. Shihab al-Din ibn Abi Asrun bore the news to Baghdad, and al-Imad wrote a general proclamation read across the lands of Islam — 'no minbar remains in those lands but the khutba for our lord al-Mustadi' is upon it'. Ibn al-Athir adds: Nur al-Din ordered it, Salah al-Din feared an Egyptian rising, and the Ajami called al-Amir al-Alim mounted the minbar before the khatib and prayed for al-Mustadi' — 'not two goats butted over it'. The khutba spread to Yemen, Barqa, Tawzar and Egypt to Aswan; Ibn al-Jawzi wrote his book al-Nasr ala Misr.