Nur ad-Din Shahanshah

Nur ad-Din Shahanshah[lower-alpha 1] (died 1148) was the eldest son of Najm ad-Din Ayyub and brother of Saladin,[1] who ruled Baalbek and Hama, and fathered Al-Muzaffar I Umar and Farrukh Shah.[2]

According to Ibn Khallikan, Shahanshah was killed during the siege of Damascus, fighting against the Crusader army, in Rabi' al-awwal AH 543 (July AD 1148).[3] He was buried in a cemetery in Sarouja, Damascus.[4]

Notes
  1. Also known as Nur ad-Dawla Shahanshah.

References
  1. Humphreys 1977, p. 388.
  2. Humphreys 1977, p. 391.
  3. Ibn Khallikan 1842, p. 615.
  4. Abu Shama 2002, p. 3.

Sources
  • Abu Shama (2002), Ibrahim Shams al-Din (ed.), Kitāb al-rawḍatayn fī akhbār al-dawlatayn al-Nūriyya wa-l-Ṣalāḥiyya [The Book of the Two Gardens, Concerning Affairs of the Reigns of Nūr al-Dīn and Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn] (in Arabic), vol. 2, Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah
  • Humphreys, R. Stephen (1977), From Saladin to the Mongols: The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193–1260, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-87395-263-4
  • Ibn Khallikan (1842). William MacGuckin (ed.). Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
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