• 1493/4–1498), 34th Nizari imam Sayf al-Dawla ibn Hud al-Mustansir (r. 1145–1146), Muslim ruler of Valencia and Murcia Al-Mustansir I (1192–1242), penultimate...
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    Aḥmad III Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Mustanṣir (Arabic: أحمد الثالث أبو جعفر بن عبد الملك المستنصر; died 5 February 1146), called Sayf al-Dawla ("Sword...
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    dynasty as the 'State of the Turks' (Dawlat al-Atrak or Dawlat al-Turk) or 'State of Turkey' (al-Dawla al-Turkiyya). During Burji rule, it was also referred...
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    Abūʾl-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir, better known by his regnal name as al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh (Arabic: الحافظ لدين الله, lit. 'Keeper...
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    suffering everywhere. The Fatimid vizier Badr al-Jamali conquered Palestine under Caliph al-Mustansir Billah and discovered the head of Husayn in AH...
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    chamberlain of Sayf al-Dawla, ousted Sa'd al-Dawla and assumed control over the city. Sa'd al-Dawla was able to regain Aleppo in 977. Lu'lu' al-Kabir was a...
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    Tamīm Ma'add al-Mu'izz li-Dīn Allāh (953–975) (transferred to Egypt in 973) Abul-Futuh Sayf ad-Dawla Buluggin ibn Ziri (973–983) Abul-Fat'h al-Mansur ibn...
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    13th-century historian Ibn al-Adim asserts that the internal divisions among the Kilab enabled the Hamdanid Sayf al-Dawla to establish his emirate in...
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  • Hamdin as Emir. A Zaragozan adventurer in Castilian employ (Sayf al-Dawla ibn Hud al-Mustansir) briefly seizes power from ibn Hamdin in March but flees to...
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    Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores calling for the Second Crusade. 1146 5 February. The Castilians defeat Sayf al-Dawla at the Battle...
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    allied himself with the Buyid Emir Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar of Iraq in his civil war against his cousin Emir 'Adud al-Dawla of Fars in 977 on the condition that...
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  • conquest of Cilicia in 964-965, defeating Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir of Aleppo. He also wrote the Tajárib al-Umam (Refinement of Character), a work on...
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  • power under pressure from rival Kilabi chiefs to the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in 944. The Kilab often rebelled against the Hamdanids and participated...
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    al-Husayn's nephews Nasir al-Dawla and Sayf al-Dawla ruling over Mosul and Aleppo respectively. Following the defeat of the Kharijites, al-Mu'tadid continued...
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    were reportedly bequeathed by the city's most famous ruler, Prince Sayf al-Dawla. They were many other sizable libraries in major Islamic cities, e.g...
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