Sultan Shah (Aleppo)

Sultan Shah , also Soltan Shah ( Arabic سلطان شاه, DMG Sulṭān Šāh ; † after 1124/25), was the last emir of Aleppo from the Turkish-born dynasty of the Seljuks .

Sultan Shah was installed as the new ruler of Aleppo at the age of six after the murder of his older brother Alp Arslan al-Achras in September 1114. The eunuch Lulu had the actual power to govern as Atabeg , who was murdered the following year after a palace intrigue. The situation in Aleppo then slipped into an anarchic state that the Sultan Shah could not influence as a child. The beneficiary of these conditions was the Ortoqide Ilghazi , who entered Aleppo in the summer of 1118, ended the rule of the Seljuks and led the Sultan Shah into captivity.

This ended the direct rule of the Seljuks in Syria , where from then on Turkish dynasties ( Burids in Damascus, Ortuqids and Zengids in Aleppo) were to fight for supremacy, which were finally inherited by the Kurdish Ayyubids in 1174 .

Sultan Shah was held captive by the Ortuqids in various castles until one day he managed to escape. In the year 1124/25 he reappeared when he tried in vain to recapture Aleppo with the help of the Franks under King Baldwin II . But in the spring of 1125 Aq Sunqur al-Bursuqi won the battle for the city . No more news of the Sultan Shah came down to this.

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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. 12-13.
• 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. 606, 612-615, 628, 631, 363, 643, 646.
• Kamāl ad-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Aḥamd ibn al-ʿAdīm, “Everything that is desirable about the history of Aleppo” (Buġyat al-ṭalab fī taʾrīḫ Ḥalab), in: RHC, Historiens Orientaux, Vol. 3 (1884), pp. 729, 732.

predecessor	Office	successor
Taj ad-Daula Alp Arslan al-Achras	Emir of Aleppo (Seljuq dynasty) 1114–1118	Naim ad-Din Ilghazi ( Ortuqid Dynasty )