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al-Malik al-Zahir Dawud ibn Salah al-Din

الملك الظاهر داود بن صلاح الدين

c. 1235 CE · 632 AH

Al-Malik al-Zahir Dawud (d. 632) — Salah al-Din's eleventh son, lord of al-Bira on the Byzantine marches near Samsat; a gifted poet and courtier whose doors stood open to scholars and poets 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq · Anatolia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa

Summary

Al-Zahir Dawud b. Yusuf, lord of al-Bira, a town on the Byzantine marches near Samosata, eleventh of Salah al-Din's sons; accomplished, a littérateur and gifted poet who loved scholars and was sought out by poets and others. 1

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Child of
Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)

People and things also explored

Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The scare over the conjunction of six planets in Libra in 582 AH· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· Battle of Arsuf· Battle of Hattin· Battle of Jacob's Ford

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 148-149
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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.