Nur ad-Din
Emir of Aleppo (1146-1174) and Damascus (1154-1174) · Politicians · Lived 1118 to 1174 · aged 56
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Something wrong?The Turkoman emir who turned the fractured Syrian provinces of the Seljuk Empire into a unified front against the Crusader states. For nearly three decades in the twelfth century, Nur ad-Din held the line.
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Born in February 1118 into the Zengid dynasty, Nur ad-Din inherited the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire in 1146 and spent the next twenty-eight years consolidating fragmented Muslim territories. His reign coincided with the Second Crusade, and he became the architect of organized resistance in Bilad al-Sham. The honorific "al-Malik al-Adil" - the Just King - stuck to him through campaigns that reframed the regional balance. He died on 15 May 1174, having built the structure that his successors, including Saladin, would inherit and expand.
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