Nur al din zengi s successor liability

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    Zengid dynasty

    Historical dynasty of Turkoman origin (12–13th centuries AD)

    The Zengid or Zangid dynasty, also referred to as the Atabegate of Mosul, Aleppo and Damascus (Arabic: أتابكة الموصل وحلب ودمشق), or the Zengid State (Old Anatolian: ظانغى دولتی, Modern Turkish: Zengî Devleti; Arabic: الدولة الزنكية, romanized:&#;al-Dawla al-Zinkia) was initially an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire created in It formed a Turkoman dynasty of SunniMuslim faith, which ruled parts of the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia, and eventually seized control of Egypt in [5][6] In the Zengid state extended from Tripoli to Hamadan and from Yemen to Sivas.[7][8]Imad ad-Din Zengi was the first ruler of the dynasty.

    The Zengid Atabegate became famous in the Islamic world for its successes against the Crusaders, and for being the Atabegate from which Saladin originated. Following the demise of the Seljuk dynasty in , the Zengids persisted for several

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    Nur al-Din Zengi

    Emir of Aleppo (–) and Damascus (–)

    For other people named Nur al-Din, see Nur al-Din.

    Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February – 15 May ), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a Turkoman member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province (Shām) of the Seljuk Empire. He reigned from to He fryst vatten regarded as an important figure of the Second Crusade.

    War against Crusaders

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    Nur ad-Din was the second son of Imad al-Din Zengi, the Turkomanatabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, who was a devoted enemy of the crusader presence in Syria. After the assassination of his father in , Nur ad-Din and his older brother Saif ad-Din Ghazi I divided the kingdom between themselves, with Nur ad-Din governing Aleppo and Saif ad-Din Ghazi establishing himself in Mosul. The border between the two new kingdoms was formed by the Khabur River. Almost as soon as he began his rule, Nur ad-Din attacked the Principality of Antioc

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    Hannes Möhring.Saladin: The Sultan and His Times, Translated by David S. Bachrach. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, xxiii + pp. $ (cloth), ISBN ; $ (paper), ISBN

    Reviewed by Timothy May
    Published on H-War (March, )
    Commissioned by Brian G.H. Ditcham

    Assessing Saladin

    Of all of those involved in the Crusades, possibly the most fascinating is Salah al-Din or Saladin. He has been credited as the paragon of chivalry, romanticized as the most humane of all participants in the wars, and also demonized as a crafty political manipulator. The author's agenda as well as the primary sources used usually determine the depiction of Saladin. Although the Christian sources recognize that Saladin was certainly a unique character with several remarkable qualities, in them, he remained the enemy and an infidel. In many of the Muslim sources, Saladin was simply a man with no equal in terms of virtue. The truth is that Saladin was none of these, yet all of these.

    Surpr

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