Kumashtakīn killed — the Franks besiege Ḥārim

قتل كمشتكين وحصر الفرنج حارم

c. 1180 CE · 576 AH

Harim

Saʿd al-Dīn Kumashtakīn — the young king's foster-father and Aleppo's strongman — was killed; the Franks judged Aleppo weakened and besieged Ḥārim, the hardest Muslim castle on their border 1.

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Saad al-Din Kumushtakin, stepson of al-Malik al-Salih, was killed. After him the Franks judged the position of Aleppo to be weak, so they marched on Harim and besieged it, though it was the most secure of the Muslim fortresses in their path 1.

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Sa'd al-Din Kumashtakin

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 89
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