al-Malik al-Zahir Ghiyath al-Din Ghazi ibn Salah al-Din

الملك الظاهر غياث الدين غازي بن صلاح الدين

c. 1172 CE · 568 AH – c. 4 October 1216 CE · 20 Jumada II 613 AH

Aleppo

Salah al-Din's son; Aleppo settled for him in 589 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abdallah al-Yunini · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa · Abu Ali al-Shalubin

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Aleppo

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Overview

Al-Malik al-Zahir Ghiyath al-Din Ghazi ibn Salah al-Din. Aleppo was settled for him when his father died in 589 AH. 1

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Ruler of
Aleppo
Died in
Aleppo
Buried in
Aleppo
Participated in
Death of al-Malik al-Zahir of Aleppo· Ibn Layun the Armenian raids the Aleppo countryside· al-Zahir Ghazi takes Manbij and is besieged· al-Zahir takes Qal'at Najm from his brother al-Afdal

People and things also explored

Aleppo· Death of al-Malik al-Zahir of Aleppo· Ibn Layun the Armenian raids the Aleppo countryside· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ moved to Aleppo — Saʿd al-Dīn Kumashtakīn seizes the regency· The exchange of Aleppo, from Mosul to Sinjar· Battle of Azaz

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 693
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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Aleppo

A city in northern Syria, among the oldest inhabited cities in the world, flourishing under the Hamdanid, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman eras.