At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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In time
In space
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Overview
In Rajab 577 AH al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il ibn Nur al-Din died in Aleppo. He had willed its handover to his cousin Izz al-Din Mas'ud, lord of Mosul, and Izz al-Din entered it on the twentieth of Sha'ban. The matter then ended in an exchange: Imad al-Din took Aleppo and handed Sinjar to his brother. 2
Course of events
Taqi al-Din Umar fled from Manbij to Hama, and the people of Aleppo rose behind Izz al-Din's banner. The army of Aleppo advised Izz al-Din to march on Damascus, but he refused and said that he had an oath between himself and Salah al-Din. 2
Imad al-Din then asked for Aleppo in exchange for Sinjar, and threatened to hand Sinjar over to Salah al-Din. The emirs advised handing it over, and Mujahid al-Din Qaymaz was the most insistent, out of fear of Izz al-Din's greatness in his own eyes, as Ibn al-Athir relates. So Izz al-Din returned to Mosul. 2
Salah al-Din in Egypt had found Izz al-Din's rule over Aleppo a burden. When news reached him that Imad al-Din had taken it, he set out for Syria the same day. 2
Note
The date is derived and rests on a single source. It needs an additional source.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il ibn Nur al-Din· عماد الدين زنكي الثاني· عز الدين مسعود بن مودود
- Occurred at
- Aleppo
People and things also explored
al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ moved to Aleppo — Saʿd al-Dīn Kumashtakīn seizes the regency· Saladin's first siege of Aleppo — the boy-king's speech and the Ismaili knives· Salah al-Din takes the north and Aleppo in 578· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· Battle of Azaz· Byzantine capture of Aleppo· Conquest of Aleppo (15 AH)
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 106-108
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.106-108
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The exchange of Aleppo, from Mosul to Sinjar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/aleppo-succession-577/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.