Jamal ad-Din Muhammad

Jamal ad-Din Muhammad ( Arabic جمال الدین محمد, DMG Ǧamāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad ; † 1140 ) was an emir of Damascus from the Burid dynasty . He was one of the sons of Taj al-Muluk Buri († 1132).

As the youngest son, Muhammad had received Baalbek as apanage from his father . After the murder of his brother Shihab ad-Din Mahmud in June 1139, he took control of Damascus. The archenemy of the Burids, Zengi , immediately took advantage of the situation and conquered Baalbek in July 1139. In November of the same year he attacked Damascus directly, but the vizier Unur was able to conclude an alliance with King Fulko of Jerusalem , whereupon Zengi withdrew to Aleppo .

Muhammad died in March / April 1140. His son Mujir ad-Din Abaq followed him.

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• Abū l-Fidāʾ , “A Brief History of Mankind” (al-Mukhtaṣar fī akhbār al-bashar), in: RHC, Historiens Orientaux , Vol. 1 (1872), pp. 20, 25.
• ʿIzz ad-Dīn Abūʾl-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Athīr , "The Perfect Chronicle" (Al-Kāmil fī ʾt-taʾrīḫ), in: RHC, Historiens Orientaux, Vol. 1 (1872), pp. 396, 425, 431, 434-435.
• Kamāl ad-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Aḥamd ibn al-ʿAdīm , “The cream of milk from the story of Aleppo” (Zubdat al-ṭalab min taʾrīḫ Ḥalab), in: RHC, Historiens Orientaux, Vol. 3 (1884), p. 681– 682.

predecessor	Office	successor
Shihab al-Din Mahmud	Emir of Damascus (Burid dynasty) 1139–1140	Mujir ad-Din Abaq