al-Malik al-Awhad, lord of Karak

الملك الأوحد صاحب الكرك

c. 1231 CE · c. 628 AH – c. September 1299 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 698 AH

Jerusalem

Lord of Karak from the house of Ayyub, son of al-Nasir Dawud; he heard from Ibn al-Lati, and al-Dimyati transmitted from him in his Mu'jam, and he died in Jerusalem in Dhu'l-Hijja, aged seventy 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
emir · Scholar
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

1175120012251250127513001325 c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ahmad ibn Muhsin al-Ba'labakki · Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq · al-Dimyati · Jamal al-Din al-Qurashi Muhammad ibn Umar · Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz

In space

Jerusalem

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Place in the story

    Sunni (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Overview

    Al-Malik al-Awhad, lord of al-Karak of the Ayyubid house, son of al-Nasir Dawud; he heard from Ibn al-Latti, and al-Dimyati transmitted from him in his Mu'jam; he died at Jerusalem in Dhu'l-Hijja aged seventy 1.

    Connections

    Explore the connections

    Died in
    Jerusalem

    People and things also explored

    Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Western Wall (Buraq Wall)· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria· Buraq Wall disturbances (1929)

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 774
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “al-Malik al-Awhad, lord of Karak”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-malik-al-awhad-karak/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

    Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

    Wing

    People

    Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
    Related

    Masjid Al-Aqsa

    The Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem's south-east corner as al-Muqaddasi saw it: Davidic foundations of ten-cubit carved blocks, Abd al-Malik's superstructure 'finer than the Damascus mosque' until an Abbasid-era earthquake felled the roofed part save the mihrab; too costly for the treasury, the caliph had each provincial amir rebuild one arcade — leaving a visible 'seam' — and Abdallah ibn Tahir added fifteen marble arcades; twenty-six doors, the greatest plated in gilded brass, the domes of the Chain, the Ascension and the Prophet on its platform.