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Rashid al-Din Sinan

رشيد الدين سنان

c. 1193 CE · c. 589 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Rashid al-Din Sinan, the 'Old Man of the Mountain' and leader of the Syrian Nizari da'wa in Saladin's time; he died around 1193 and his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Nizari da'i
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

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Participated in
Saladin's first siege of Aleppo — the boy-king's speech and the Ismaili knives

People and things also explored

al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il ibn Nur al-Din· Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)· Aleppo· Saladin's first siege of Aleppo — the boy-king's speech and the Ismaili knives

Sources

  • al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir
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al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il ibn Nur al-Din

Nur al-Din's boy-heir at Damascus in 569; the Franks stirred on the coasts and were bought off with money.