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Saladin takes Mayyafariqin

ملك صلاح الدين ميافارقين

c. 1185 CE · 581 AH

Mayyafariqin

Saladin took Mayyafariqin and its Diyar Bakr dependencies after the Mosul truce, extending his Jaziran realm 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

Summary

After the peace with Mosul, Salah al-Din took Mayyafariqin and its districts in Diyar Bakr, and his realm grew in al-Jazira, Diyar Bakr and Diyar Rabi'a. 1

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Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)

People and things also explored

Salah al-Din's siege of Mosul and the settlement of Shahrazur in 581· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The scare over the conjunction of six planets in Libra in 582 AH· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· Battle of Arsuf· Battle of Hattin

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 134
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Salah al-Din's siege of Mosul and the settlement of Shahrazur in 581

In 581 Salah al-Din besieged Mosul; its people fought their hardest and its strength turned him back. He took Mayyafariqin by safe-conduct, returned to the siege, and peace came on terms: the khutba in his name, the city's lord his liege, and Shahrizur and its fortresses ceded. He withdrew, then fell gravely ill at Harran until his death was rumoured and the hair of his beard and head fell out.