عماد الدين زنكي

Overview

Imad al-Din Zangi ibn Aq Sunqur, atabeg, lord of Mosul and Aleppo. He was killed in Rabi' al-Akhir 541 AH. His son Ghazi took Mosul, and his son Nur al-Din Mahmud took Aleppo and other places. ²

Rise

He held the shihna (governorship) of Baghdad at the end of the reign of al-Mustazhir billah, and then was moved to Mosul. Sultan Mahmud handed over to him his son Farrukhshah to raise, and for this he was called atabeg. ²

Character and lands

Ibn al-Imad describes him as a brave and valiant knight, of great might and great awe, and says that there was injustice and harshness in him. This is Ibn al-Imad's description. He traversed Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Halabak, Edessa and Ma'arra. ²

His death

Some of his mamluks killed him while he slept, and they fled to the fortress of Ja'bar, where its lord Ali ibn Malik al-Uqayli opened it to them. ²

Other views of his career are not yet recorded. It needs an additional source.

قطع الخطبة العبيدية وإقامة الخطبة العباسية بمصر

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.

عماد الدين زنكي

At a glance

Life in time

Overview

Rise

Character and lands

His death

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قطع الخطبة العبيدية وإقامة الخطبة العباسية بمصر