At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Sides
Commanders: Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
Commanders: عز الدين مسعود بن مودود
Summary
In 578 AH Salah al-Din set out and opened Harran, Suruj, Sinjar, Nisibin and Raqqa. He besieged Mosul and was baffled by its strength 1.
Aleppo
A messenger from the caliph came with an order for him to leave Mosul, and he left. He returned and took Aleppo from Izz al-Din Mas'ud al-Atabeki, and compensated him with Sinjar 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)· عز الدين مسعود بن مودود
- Occurred at
- Aleppo
People and things also explored
the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The exchange of Aleppo, from Mosul to Sinjar· Saladin's first siege of Aleppo — the boy-king's speech and the Ismaili knives· Salah al-Din enters Damascus without fighting in 570· Salah al-Din's siege of Mosul and the settlement of Shahrazur in 581· Killing of Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi in Aleppo, 587· the Mosul truce — Saladin and the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud· al-Malik al-Muhsin ibn Salah al-Din
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 739
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Salah al-Din takes the north and Aleppo in 578”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/salah-al-din-aleppo-578/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.