ظهير الدين طغركين الأتابك

ظهير الدين طغركين الأتابك

جنوری 1128 عیسوی · صفر 522 ھ

Tughtakin the Atabeg, laqab Zahir al-Din, a mamluk of Taj al-Dawla Tutush; on Duqaq's death in 497 AH he took sole power, proclaimed the infant Tultash then ruled outright when the boy fled to Baalbek — he broke the qummus raiding Damascus, took the Ramsa fort of Tripoli, and met the Frankish kings and counts at Marj al-Saffar late in 520, where he was unhorsed but the Turkman foot fought to the death, massacred the Frankish infantry and looted their camp; he died in Safar 522, remembered as just, upright and devoted to jihad, and his son Taj al-Dawla Buri succeeded.