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Turanshah's conquest of Zabid (569 AH)

ملك شمس الدولة زبيد ودخول اليمن

c. January 1174 CE · c. 1 Rajab 569 AH

Zabid

Rajab 569 (early 1174): with Nur al-Din's leave — for Abd al-Nabi of Zabid had cut the Abbasid khutba — Shams al-Dawla Turanshah marched from Egypt via Mecca, routed Abd al-Nabi outside Zabid, scaled its wall and sacked the town, taking him and his wife al-Hurra prisoner; Zabid submitted and the Abbasid khutba was proclaimed — the first move of the Ayyubid conquest of Yemen, urged on by the Yemeni poet Umara at Cairo 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Arabia
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1160117011801190 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Zabid

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موجز

يروي ابن الأثير أن صلاح الدين وأهله استأذنوا نور الدين في إرسال شمس الدولة توران شاه إلى اليمن لقصد عبد النبي صاحب زبيد، لأنه قطع الخطبة العباسية. فأذن نور الدين. 2

الحملة

ذكر أن شاعراً يمنياً اسمه عمارة، كان في مصر، زيّن له قصد اليمن. فسار عن مصر في مستهل رجب سنة 569هـ إلى مكة ثم زبيد. خرج إليه عبد النبي بعسكره فانهزم أهل زبيد، وملك المسلمون البلد عنوة ونهبوه. 2

أُسر عبد النبي وزوجته، ثم أُقيمت الخطبة العباسية في زبيد. 2

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Shams al-Dawla Turanshah ibn Ayyub· Abd al-Nabi, lord of Zabid
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Zabid

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Abd al-Nabi, lord of Zabid· Shams al-Dawla Turanshah ibn Ayyub· The battle of the Sudan between the two palaces· صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب الملك الناصر· Zabid

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 52-53
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p.52-53
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Abd al-Nabi, lord of Zabid

Abd al-Nabi, master of Zabid, who had cut the Abbasid khutba — confident the heat would kill the invaders 'save a lizard's bite', he rode out against Turanshah in Rajab 569, lost, and was taken with his pious wife al-Hurra; handed to Sayf al-Dawla Mubarak ibn Kamil of Shayzar's Banu Munqidh to yield up his treasures, including his father's grave-hoard.