The Zengid or Zangid dynasty, Atabegs of Mosul (Arabic: الدولة الزنكية romanized: al-Dawla al-Zinkia) was an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire created in...

Egypt. A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish origin, Saladin had originally served the Zengid ruler Nur ad-Din, leading Nur ad-Din's army in battle against the Crusaders...

when it was taken by the ruler of Aleppo, Nur ed-Din, founder of the Zengid dynasty. The Burids lost to the Crusaders in the battle of Marj al-Saffar (1126)...

Zengid rulers which added the title atabeg. The Ayyubid monarchs used the titles of sultan and malik. The dates for Yamhad and the Hittite Dynasties are...

Iranian origin) Zengids (Atabegs of Mosul) (of Turkmen origin) Beginning in the twelfth century the atabegs formed a number of dynasties, and displaced...

the Zengid dynasty during the Crusader period in the TV series. He and Saladin will be portrayed as serving as commanders under the Zengid dynasty, although...

Caravansaries used the domed bay from the Sasanian period to the Qajar dynasty. The Persian invention of the squinch, a series of concentric arches forming...

Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake and founder of the Zengid dynasty of atabegs. Zengi's father, Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, governor of Aleppo under...

Mercenary commander in service of the Zengid dynasty, Saladin was sent to Fatimid Egypt in 1164, on the orders of the Zengid ruler Nur ad-Din. With their original...

Mahmud. He was the founder of the short-lived Luluid dynasty. Originally a slave of the Zengid ruler Nur al-Din Arslan Shah I, he was the first Middle-Eastern...