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Nūr al-Dīn besieges al-Karak

حصر نور الدين الكرك

c. 1169 CE · 565 AH

al-Karak

Nūr al-Dīn laid siege to al-Karak, among the strongest Frankish strongholds in the land of Moab east of the Dead Sea — their great base of refuge 1.

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In time

116011701180 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

In space

al-Karak

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Sides

Nūr al-Dīn's army

Commanders: Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi

the Franks

Summary

Nur al-Din besieged al-Karak, the great capital of the Franks in the land of Moab east of the Dead Sea, and one of the most impregnable of the fortresses to which they would flee. 1

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al-Karak
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Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi

People and things also explored

Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· Death of Nur al-Din Mahmud· The Frankish siege of Damietta (564 AH)· Nur al-Din Lifts the Frankish Siege of Damascus· Nūr al-Dīn takes Mosul and confirms Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī upon it· The Battle of Safed and the Taking of Gaza, Banias and Shayzar in 552· Nur al-Din Takes the Fortress of Safita from the Franks in 561· the hidden estrangement between Nūr al-Dīn and Saladin

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 23
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Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt

Al-Imad al-Katib: Salah al-Din opened the year 567 with Egypt's greatest obedience — the Abbasid khutba, first Jumu'a at Fustat's mosque, the second at Cairo; al-Adid died that Ashura, and the palace's treasures sold for ten years. Shihab al-Din ibn Abi Asrun bore the news to Baghdad, and al-Imad wrote a general proclamation read across the lands of Islam — 'no minbar remains in those lands but the khutba for our lord al-Mustadi' is upon it'. Ibn al-Athir adds: Nur al-Din ordered it, Salah al-Din feared an Egyptian rising, and the Ajami called al-Amir al-Alim mounted the minbar before the khatib and prayed for al-Mustadi' — 'not two goats butted over it'. The khutba spread to Yemen, Barqa, Tawzar and Egypt to Aswan; Ibn al-Jawzi wrote his book al-Nasr ala Misr.