At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Taqi al-Din Umar ibn Shahanshah, nephew of Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub. In the year 566 AH he bought the houses of al-Izz in Egypt and built them as a madrasa for the Shafi'is 1.
The battle of Ramla
At the battle of Ramla in the year 573 AH he charged his son Ahmad against the Franks. Ahmad made an impression on them, then turned back against them and was killed as a martyr, as Ibn al-Athir reports 2.
Connections
People and things also explored
صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب الملك الناصر· Battle of Hattin· Taqi al-Dīn routs Qilij Arslān's twenty thousand with a thousand horse· 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)
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.32
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.85
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “تقي الدين عمر بن شاهنشاه”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/taqi-al-din-umar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.