al-Aziz Muhammad
Al-Malik al-Aziz Muhammad ( Arabic الملك العزيز محمد, DMG al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad ; * 1213 ; † November 1236 ) was an emir of Aleppo from the Ayyubid dynasty . He was a son of the Emir az-Zahir Ghazi and the Daifah Khatun. On his father's side he was a grandson of the famous an-Nasir Yusuf (Saladin) and on his mother's side of his brother al-Adil Abu Bakr I (Saphadin) .
Al-Aziz succeeded his father, who died in 1216, at the age of three in rulership of Aleppo. The reign for him took over the Atabeg Shihab al-Din Toghril, who was a former slave of his father. At the age of seventeen, al-Aziz personally took over the reign. He did not interfere in the political entanglements between the Christian barons of the Levant and his ruling cousins in Damascus and Cairo . Instead, he advanced the expansion of Aleppo and its citadel .
Al-Aziz secured itself militarily by forming its own guard of military slaves ( Mameluks ), the so-called Aziziya-Mameluks.
literature
- Hamilton AR Gibb : The Aiyūbids . In: Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard (Eds.): The later Crusades, 1189-1311 . ( A History of the Crusades , Volume II), University of Wisconsin Press, Madison [et al.] 1969, pp. 693-714, here pp. 698-704.
- Robert Graham Irwin : The Middle East in the Middle Ages. The early Mamluk Sultanates 1250-1382 . Croom Helm, London [ua] 1986, ISBN 0-7099-1308-7 , part 2.
- Steven Runciman : History of the Crusades . Special edition in one volume without references to sources and literature. Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-02527-7 , p. 989.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| az-Zahir Ghazi |
Emir of Aleppo 1216–1236 |
an-Nasir Yusuf |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Al-Aziz Muhammad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | al-Malik al-Aziz Muhammad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ayyubide, Emir of Aleppo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1213 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1236 |