سيف الدين غازي بن زنكي

سيف الدين غازي بن زنكي

c. 1149 CE · c. Jumada II 544 AH

Sayf al-Din Ghazi I b. Zangi, lord of Mosul — a man of religion, courage and enterprise; he died in Jumada al-Akhira 544 past forty, succeeded by his brother Qutb al-Din Mawdud 1.

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Roles
Ruler · military
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad · Al-Asmandi, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi · al-Azjani, Nasih al-Din

Overview

Sayf al-Din Ghazi I, lord of Mosul and son of Imad al-Din Zangi. The Shadharat al-Dhahab describes him as having religion, goodness, courage and boldness 1.

His death

He died in Jumada al-Akhira in the year 544 AH, having passed forty years of age. His brother Qutb al-Din Mawdud succeeded him in rule 1.

The Common Era date in the museum's data is derived from the Hijri year.

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عماد الدين زنكي

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نور الدين محمود بن زنكي· عماد الدين زنكي

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 619
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نور الدين محمود بن زنكي

Lord of Aleppo then Syria; he relieved Damascus from the Frankish siege in 543 with his brother Ghazi and kept retaking what they held — never slackening in jihad. He took Damascus in Safar 549, and al-Muqtafi deeded him Egypt as 'al-Malik al-Adil.