Just ad-Din Muhammad

Just ad-Din Muhammad , or Muhammad II ( Arabic نورالدينمحمد, DMG Nūr ad-Dīn Muḥammad ; * 1147 ; † September 1, 1210 ), was the 24th Imam of the Shia of the Nizari-Ismailis and fifth ruler of Alamut .

The Ismaili state of Alamut in northern Persia.

Favored by the collapse of the Seljuk Empire , the Ismaili state was able to achieve extensive independence in the time of Muhammad II. Its territory comprised the northern Persian mountain region of the Elbe river south of the Caspian Sea , corresponding to the present-day Iranian provinces of Qazvin and eastern Gilan with Alamut Castle as the main residence. The largely autonomous Syrian exclave around Masyaf still existed .

Muhammad had his father's murderer executed along with his family members, thus wiping out the Buyid dynasty . He continued the messianic Shiite doctrine on " doctrine of the day" proclaimed by his father , which was considered heresy from the standpoint of orthodox Islam of the Sunna . In his later years, he got into an argument with his son Jalal ad-Din Hassan because he did not want to follow the teaching.

The Imam's chief ( dāʿī ) in Syria, Raschid ad-Din Sinan , carried out two attacks on Saladin between 1175 and 1176 , which, however, were unsuccessful. The Sunni Saladin had ended the rule of the cousins ​​hated by the Nizari in Egypt ( Fatimids / Mustalites ) in 1171 , but as its new ruler he placed himself under the formal suzerainty of the Sunni Abbasid caliphate .

On the tenth day of the month of Rabi I 607 AH (September 1, 1210) Muhammad II died, rumored to have been poisoned by his son.

literature

• Farhad Daftary , The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge University Press 1990.
• Farhad Daftary, The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismaʿilis. London 1994.
• Farhad Daftary, Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies. London 2004.
• Heinz Halm, Caliphs and Assassins: Egypt and the Near East at the Time of the First Crusades 1074–1171. Munich 2014, pp. 336–346.

swell

• Ata al-Mulk Dschuwaini , "History of the World Conqueror" ( Ta'rīkh-i Jahāngushāy ) : ed. as a translation into English by John Andrew Boyle, Genghis Khan, the history of the world conqueror (1958), pp. 697-699.
• Hamd Allah Mustawfi , "Selected Story" (Ta'rīkh-i-guzīda) : ed. as a translation into English by Edward G. Browne, The Ta'ríkh-i-guzída or "Select history" of Hamdulláh Mustawfí-i-Qazwíní, part 2 (1913), p. 129.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hassan (II.) Ala dhikrihi s-salam	24. Imam of the Nizari- Ismailis 1166–1210	Jalal ad-Din Hassan (III.)
Hassan (II.) Ala Dhikrihi s-Salam	Ruler of Alamut 1166–1210	Jalal ad-Din Hassan (III.)