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Umara al-Yamani

عمارة اليمني

c. April 1174 CE · 2 Ramadan 569 AH

The Yemeni poet at Saladin's Cairo — his praise of Yemen fired Turanshah's appetite for the 569 conquest ('I sent his brother far to Yemen lest he take his place'); then a pillar of the Fatimid-restoration plot with its Frankish collusion, betrayed by the informer Ibn Naja and crucified 2 Ramadan 569 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Poet
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile · Arabia
Identifiers
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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 · Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Overview

Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani, a poet who was in Egypt. Salah al-Din had him crucified on the second of Ramadan in the year 569 AH 2.

Mention of Yemen

Ibn al-Athir reports that he used to make a good impression on Turanshah, describing the lands of Yemen to him, and that this increased his desire for it 2.

The plot

He became one of the pillars of a plot to restore the Alid state, in which it was resolved to summon the Franks. Zayn al-Din Ali ibn Naja uncovered it to Salah al-Din, who arrested the leaders and crucified them, and Umara was among them. See the plot to restore the Fatimid state 2.

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Participated in
The plot to restore the Ubaydid da'wa and the crucifixion of its partisans

People and things also explored

The Sicilian assault on Alexandria (569 AH)· Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)· Zayn al-Din Ali ibn Naja· The plot to restore the Ubaydid da'wa and the crucifixion of its partisans

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 52-54
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p.52-54
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The Sicilian assault on Alexandria (569 AH)

26 Dhu al-Hijja 569 (1174): answering the restoration plotters' letters, a Sicilian armada — two hundred troop-shinis, thirty-six horse-transports, six siege-train ships and forty supply vessels, fifty thousand foot and fifteen hundred horse under the Sicilian king's cousin — landed by the Pharos and set siege-towers against Alexandria's wall; the townsfolk and nearby iqta' troops held three days, burst out and burned the towers, and a rumour of Saladin's approach broke the Franks — the camp was stormed in the dark, the fleet fled under hull-piercing swimmers, and three hundred knights on a hill were finished by morning.