Suleiman ibn Ilghazi

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Shams ad-Daula Sulaiman ibn Il-Ghazi ibn Artuq ( Arabic شمس الدولة سليمان بن الغازي بن ارتق, DMG Šams ad-Daula Sulaimān b. Il-Ġāzī b. Artuq ; d. 1124 ) was a ruler from the Islamic-Turkish dynasty of the Artuqids ; from 1122 he ruled mainly in Maiyafariqin, today's Silvan in eastern Turkey .

Under Nadschm ad-Din Il-Ghazi I (r. 1114 / 1115-1122) Sulaiman acted briefly as governor of Aleppo until he rebelled against his father (who was fighting in Georgia at the time ) in 1121 for unclear reasons and without success . As a result, he was deposed by this and replaced by a cousin, whereupon Sulaiman fled to his maternal grandfather, Atabeg Tugh-Tegin , in Damascus . A little later, however, he stayed again at the side of his father, with whom he was on the way to Maiyafariqin in the Jazira in 1122 . When Il-Ghazi, to which the said city was only given to Mardin in 1118 or 1121/1122 by the Seljuk Sultan Mahmud II , died on this trip at night, Sulaiman and his mother kept the ruler's death secret until they became the governor of Maiyafariqin and they were safely inside the fortress.

While Sulaiman inherited his father in Maiyafariqin (according to plan or not), his other son Husam ad-Din Temur-Tash took over the rule of Mardin. The relationship between the two brothers was only good at the beginning. Sulaiman managed to expand his territory at the expense of the neighboring emirs of Hisn Kaifa and Arzan, where he was able to conquer Chartpert in particular . A daughter of the Rum Seljuks Qilitsch-Arslan I became Sulayman's wife.

In the autumn of 1124 Shams ad-Daula ("Sun of Rulership") Sulaiman died in Maiafariqin. The city then fell to Temür-Tasch (r. 1122–1154) from Mardin and Chartpert to Dawud ibn Sökmen b. Artuq (r. 1109-1144) from Hisn Kaifa. Sulayman left a son named Mahmud; the judgment of his brief reign is consistently negative in the historical sources - the most important is Ibn al-Azraq's story of Maiyafariqin and Amid . Temür-Tasch had his brother buried in Mardin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven Runciman: History of the Crusades. CH Beck, 1995, ISBN 9783406399602 , p. 467. Restricted preview in Google Book Search

Web links

  • Genealogy of the Middle Ages
  • Gustav Weil: History of the Chalifes: Vol. From the capture of Baghdad by the Bujids to the fall of the Chaliphate of Baghdad. 334-656 d. H .: 945-1258 AD. F. Bassermann, 1831, p. 241. limited preview in Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Suleiman ibn Ilghazi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shams ad-Daula Sulaiman ibn Il-Ghazi ibn Artuq; شمس الدولة سليمان بن الغازي بن ارتق (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Emir of Mayyafaraqin (from 1122)
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 1124