Duqaq

Abu Nasr Shams al-Muluk Duqaq († probably 1104) was the Seljuk ruler of Damascus from 1095 to 1104. He inherited Damascus and Syria from his father, Tutusch I , but had to share the empire with him after a revolt by his older brother Radwan . Radwan got the north with Aleppo , Duqaq got the south with Damascus. Tutusch II followed him on his death .

When the Crusaders besieged Antioch in 1097 and 1098 , they were attacked towards the end of 1097 by an army under Duqaq who had marched north to come to Antioch's aid. The first meeting was negative for Duqaq, an earthquake on December 30th and unusually cold and rainy weather in the following weeks caused Duqaq to withdraw and not bother the crusaders for the time being.

The second attempt together with Kerboga and Radwan to liberate the city also failed. When the Muslim army marched in front of the city on June 5, 1098, it had already been conquered, the ensuing siege of the Christians ended with a field battle on June 28, in which the Muslims again lost.

literature

• HAR Gibb: The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades . 2003, ISBN 0486425193 , pp. 24-62.
• David Luscombe, Jonathan Riley-Smith (Eds.): The New Cambridge Medieval History . Vol. 4, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0521414113 , pp. 729-731.
• David Nicolle : The First Crusade 1096-1099: Conquest of the Holy Land . Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2003, ISBN 1-84176-515-5, pp. 48-68.

predecessor	Office	successor
Tutusch I.	Ruler of Damascus (Seljuq dynasty) 1095–1104	Tutusch II.