Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a...
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two of the greatest Muslim generals of the 12th century, Nur ad-Din and Saladin. Ismat ad-Din is a laqab (the descriptive part of an Arabic name) meaning...
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Saladin (redirect from Saladin ad-Din)
was sent to Fatimid Egypt in 1164, on the orders of the Zengid ruler Nur ad-Din. With their original purpose being to help restore Shawar as the vizier...
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As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (redirect from Malek as-Saleh ibn-Nur ad-Din)
was the Zengid emir of Damascus and emir of Aleppo in 1174, the son of Nur ad-Din. He was only eleven years old when his father died in 1174. As-Salih came...
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Nur al-Din (Arabic: نور الدين, romanized: nūr ad-dīn) is a male Arabic given name, translating to "light of Faith", nūr meaning "light" and dīn meaning...
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Shirkuh (redirect from Asad ad-din Shirkuh)
Nur ad-Din in 1154. In 1163 Nur ad-Din was asked by Shawar to intervene in Egypt in a dispute between him and Dirgham over the Fatimid vizierate. Nur...
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to his eldest son Saif ad-Din Ghazi I, and Aleppo and Edessa falling to his second son, Nur ad-Din, atabeg of Aleppo. Nur ad-Din proved to be as competent...
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Crusades (section Nūr-ad-Din and the rise of Saladin)
killed and his head was presented to Nūr-ad-Din, who forwarded it to the caliph al-Muqtafi in Baghdad. In 1150, Nūr-ad-Din defeated Joscelin II of Edessa for...
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Jami (redirect from Nur ad-Din Jami)
symbols. Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī (Persian: نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی; 7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān...
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Muslim. In 1147 Nur ad-Din and Mu'in ad-Din negotiated an alliance, in which Nur ad-Din married Mu'in ad-Din's daughter Ismat ad-Din Khatun. Having established...
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