الناصر صاحب دمشق

الناصر صاحب دمشق

1230 عیسوی · 627 ھ – تقریباً 1261 عیسوی · تقریباً 659 ھ

Damascus's lord, to whom Hulagu sent the three dread letters after Baghdad's fall ¹. Salah al-Din Yusuf b. al-Aziz Muhammad b. al-Zahir Ghazi b. Salah al-Din — born 627, raised to Aleppo's throne at seven (634) while Shams al-Din Lu'lu' and his grandmother Safiyya bint al-Adil governed; he took Damascus without battle in 648 and held it ten years. When Aleppo fell he fled toward Gaza, was taken under aman into Hulagu's service for months, then killed with his brother al-Zahir Ghazi before the khan — his obituary falling under year 660 ².