At a glance
- Roles
- emir · General
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Shams al-Muluk Abu'l-Fath Isma'il ibn Taj al-Muluk Buri ibn Tughtakin ruled Damascus after his father. He was full of gravity, famed for courage, much given to raiding the Franks — he took several fortresses from them — and besieged his brother at Baalbek for a time. But he was an unjust, confiscating tyrant, so his mother plotted and a band of his retainers' wives killed him in the citadel of Damascus in Rabi' I 529; his state had lasted about three years. His brother Mahmud succeeded him, and Mu'in al-Din Anar became his atabeg. 1
Connections
- Ruler of
- Burid dynasty (atabegs of Damascus)
- Died in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· al-Ashraf takes Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 570-571
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “شمس الملوك إسماعيل بن بوري بن طغتكين”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shams-al-muluk-ismail-ibn-buri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.