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al-Malik al-Mughith Umar

الملك المغيث عمر

c. 1263 CE · c. 661 AH

Al-Malik al-Mughith Umar b. al-Adil — last Ayyubid lord of Karak and Shawbak (to 661); lured down by Baybars' oaths and imprisoned at Qal'at al-Jabal in Cairo 1. Ibn al-Imad records the charge: he had corresponded with Hulagu asking twenty thousand horse against Egypt, and when the letters were read to Cairo's scholars they ruled his life forfeit 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani · Afif al-Din ibn Mazru' · Ahmad al-Badawi

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Al-Malik al-Mughith 'Umar b. al-Malik al-'Adil Sayf al-Din Abi Bakr b. Ayyub; small when residing in the citadel, he went down to his cousin al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Turanshah when he reached al-Mansura — Karak, Shawbak and those parts were granted him, and he is now their king. 1

His seizure

He remained their lord until 661, when al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars encamped in the Ghawr, wrote him, offered him much for surrendering the town and swore to him — so he came down to him at his lodging at al-Tur from the Ghawr, and Baybars seized him the moment he arrived, despatched him to Egypt's Citadel of the Mount and imprisoned him there. 1

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The fall of al-Mughith, lord of Karak

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 528
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The fall of al-Mughith, lord of Karak

Baybars rode to Syria and by stratagem brought down al-Mughith, lord of Karak — the last of him, for he had corresponded with Hulagu promising him Egypt and asking twenty thousand horse; when his letters were found in Egypt and read to the scholars, they ruled that one who did this might not be left alive.