al-Malik al-Muzaffar Ghazi b. al-Adil

الملك المظفر غازي بن العادل

1247 CE · 645 AH

Al-Adil's son (d. 645) — the bold, awe-inspiring lord of Mayyafariqin, Khilat and Hisn Mansur, who performed the hajj out of Baghdad; succeeded by his son the martyred al-Kamil Nasir al-Din 1.

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Roles
sultan
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq · Anatolia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Ali al-Shalubin · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi

Place in the story

    Sunni (transmitted)

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    Overview

    Al-Malik al-Muzaffar Ghazi b. al-Malik al-'Adil; a brave horseman, a formidable and awe-inspiring man, a generous king — lord of Mayyafariqin, Khilat, Hisn Mansur and more. 1

    His death

    He made the hajj from Baghdad and died that same year; his son the martyr al-Malik al-Kamil Nasir al-Din ruled after him. 1

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    Parent of
    al-Malik al-Kamil of Mayyafariqin
    Child of
    al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub
    Ruled over
    Mayyafariqin

    People and things also explored

    al-Malik al-Kamil of Mayyafariqin· Mayyafariqin· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· al-Adil takes Egypt — the Ayyubid house-war ends· al-Adil takes the Khabur and Nisibis and besieges Sinjar· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· Al-Adil takes Jaffa and the Franks take Beirut (593 AH)

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 241
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    islam.museum contributors. “al-Malik al-Muzaffar Ghazi b. al-Adil”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-malik-al-muzaffar-ghazi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.

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    al-Malik al-Kamil of Mayyafariqin

    Lord of Mayyafariqin (r. 645) — 'a learned, virtuous, just prince, none in his house his peer'; after a twenty-month Tatar siege that emptied the city by plague and famine, Hulagu had him beheaded, his head paraded and hung on Bab al-Faradis; Dhahabi heard the Tatars found seventy souls in what had been thousands.