Buri ibn Ayyub

بوري بن أيوب

1161 CE · 556 AH

Taj al-Muluk Buri b. Ayyub — youngest of Salah al-Din's brothers; a prince of some refinement with a poetry diwan; died of a knee wound received at Salah al-Din's siege of Aleppo 1.

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Summary

Taj al-Muluk Abu Sa'id Buri b. Ayyub b. Shadhi b. Marwan, styled Majd al-Din; brother of Sultan Salah al-Din and youngest of his father's sons, a man of merit with a poetry diwan of wheat and chaff. 1

Death

He died of a wound — a spear-thrust to the knee on the day the army camped against Aleppo when his brother Sultan Salah al-Din besieged it; he had been struck on the sixteenth of Muharram. 1

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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