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Zayn al-Din Yusuf ibn Ali Begtegin, lord of Irbil, died. His brother Muzaffar al-Din Kukburi set out from Harran and took possession of it. He was among the most generous of kings and the closest of them to the scholars. ¹

Muzaffar al-Din Kökburi

Muzaffar al-Din Kökburi — lord of Irbil from boyhood under Saladin's gift (Harran and Edessa surrendered for it), and for fifty years its most charitable prince: daily bread by the qintar for the needy, four khanqahs for the lame and blind he visited twice weekly in person, houses for widows, orphans and foundlings, two annual missions buying Muslim captives free of the Franks, a Hajj road-fund of five thousand dinars for the Haramayn, the first water run to Arafat, and the great mawlid of 8 Rabi' I (300,000 dinars a year on it alone, per Ibn Shihba); he died in 630 and, the Hajj blocked by the Tatars, was buried at Kufa near Ali.

death of Zayn al-Din Yusuf of Irbil — Muzaffar al-Din Kokburi succeeds

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