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    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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    Imad al-Din Zengi (Arabic: عماد الدین زنكي; c. 1085 – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the...
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  • He was the eldest son of Imad al-Din Zengi of Mosul, and the elder brother of Nur ad-Din. In 1146 Imad al-Din Zengi was besieging the fortress of Qal'at...
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    Battle of Ard al-Hâtim or Fons Muratus, was fought on 29 June 1149, during the Second Crusade. The Zengid army of the atabeg Nur al-Din Zengi destroyed the...
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    Nasir ad-Din Mahmud, whom he murdered in 1234. Zengi, 1128–1146 Nur al-Din, son of Zengi, 1146–1174 As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, son of Nur al-Din, 1174–1182...
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    service of Zengi's son Nur al-Din Zengi, who had designs on Damascus; when the Second Crusade besieged the city in 1148, Nur al-Din forced Mu'in al-Din and the...
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    became vassals of the Zengids during the reign of Nur al-Din Zengi (r. 1146–1174). Kara Aslan's son Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad allied with the Ayyubid sultan Saladin...
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    Abu al-Fath Ismail bin Nur al-Din Mahmud bin Imad al-Din bin Aq Sunqur al-Zangi (Arabic: أبو الفتوح إسماعيل بن نور الدين محمود بن عماد الدين بن آق سنقر...
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    rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمّد رومی), or simply Rumi (30 September...
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    Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, and also by his regnal name Alamgir I, was the sixth Mughal...
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    ad-Din Zengi acknowledged his debt and appointed Ayyub commander of his fortress in Baalbek. After the death of Zengi in 1146, his son, Nur ad-Din, became...
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    ad-Din al-Malik al-Adil Zengi Ibn Moudud (Arabic: أبو الفتح عماد الدين "الملك العادل" زنكي بن مودود; died 1197), better known as Imad ad-Din Zengi II...
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    increasingly hostile nominal master, the emir of Aleppo and Damascus, Nur al-Din Zengi, that Egypt was still unruly and that Saladin was indispensable to...
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    Quṭb al-Aqṭāb Khwāja Sayyid Muḥammad Bakhtiyār al-Ḥusaynī, Quṭb al-Dīn Bakhtiyār Kākī (born 1173 – died 1235) was a Sunni Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and...
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    Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti Sijzi (Persian: معین الدین چشتی, romanized: Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī; February 1143 – March 1236), known reverentially as Khawaja...
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    successor of Sayf al-Din Ghazi I. At the death of Zengi, his possessions were divided between his sons: Nur al-Din received Aleppo and Saif al-Din Ghazi Mosul...
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  • advice of his vizier as ambassador to Nur ad-Din Zengi at Aleppo. Here he was appointed as successor of Radī ad-Dīn as-Sarachsī (died 1149) professor of...
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  • scholar al-Taftazani (d. 791/1389 or 792/1390) on the creed of Najm al-Din 'Umar al-Nasafi (d. 537/1142-3), an authoritative compendium on Islamic Sunni...
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    Muhammad al-Hussaini, Alaul Haq Pandavi and Nur Qutb Alam, Pandua, West Bengal; Ashraf Jahangir Semnani, Kichaucha, Uttar Pradesh; Hussam ad-Din Manikpuri...
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    Nur ad-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sultan Muhammad al-Hirawi al-Qari (Arabic: نور الدين أبو الحسن علي بن سلطان محمد الهروي القاري; d. 1605/1606), known as...
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    Mehmed II (redirect from Muhammad al-Fatih)
    a human scarecrow as a warning to other sailors on the strait. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...
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    را راہنما Ganj Bakhsh-e-Faiz-e-Alam Mazhar-e-Nur-e-Khuda, Na Qasaan-ra Pir-i Kamil, Kamilaan-ra Rahnuma. Al-Hujwiri is believed to have contributed "significantly"...
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  • praised by the Salafis. Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari/Pruščak (d. 1025/1616), entitled Nur al-Yaqin fi Usul al-Din. 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani (d. 1298/1880). Qari Muhammad...
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    us the summary of Al- Maturidi's Kitab Al Tawhid namely the Jumal usul al-dīn. Al-Maturidi, being a follower of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence...
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  • dire need of money and military assistance against the Muslim ruler Nur al-Din Zengi, and so when its high court debated the marriage of their young king...
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  • minor, Mu'in ad-Din Unur was named vizier. Zengi attacked Damascus, hoping to take advantage of Jamal ad-Din's death, but Mu'in ad-Din effectively organized...
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    Shirkuh (redirect from Asad al-Din Shirkuh)
    the night they left). They joined Nur ad-Din Zengi's army, and Shirkuh served under Nur ad-Din Zengi who succeeded Zengi in Mosul. Shirkuh was later given...
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  • Zangi (redirect from Zengi)
    dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin Nur ad-Din (died 1174) (Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī), his second son Mohammad Shammaa Al Zengi III (1883–1954), Syrian textile...
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    Nubia and Yemen. Saladin was vizier to the Fatimid caliph al-Adid. In 1171, Nur al-Din Zengi, the Zengid Sultan of Syria, allowed Turanshah to travel to...
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  • under his rule. In the show, Saladin is depicted as the adopted son of Nur ad-Din Zengi who doesn't know that he is adopted and doesn't know his real parents...
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