Yemen and the Hejaz were added to the state of the Zengids. The Artuqids became vassals of the Zengids. Nur ad-Din also took control of Anatolian lands...

the animosity of other Zengid lords, who were the official rulers of Syria's principalities; he subsequently defeated the Zengids at the Battle of the Horns...

victory over the Zengids, which left Saladin in control of Damascus, Baalbek, and Homs. Gökböri commanded the right wing of the Zengid army, which broke...

proclaiming himself to be Ismail's true regent. In 1176, Saladin defeated the Zengids outside the city, married Ismat ad-Din Khatun, and was recognized as ruler...

Mihraniyya corps, and tribal chief of Hadhbani tribe. in the service of the Zengids and later the Ayyubids in 1171. In 1174 he was given a fiefdom in upper...

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son of the Kurdish mercenary Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb, and military commander of Zengid Emirate. He was the father of Farrukh Shah and Al-Muzaffar I Umar. Shahanshah...

eventually supplanted in the east by the Khwarazmian Empire in 1194 and the Zengids and Ayyubids in the west. The last surviving Seljuk sultanate to fall was...

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ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a Turkoman member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province (Shām) of the Seljuk Empire. He reigned...