92
497–549/1104–54
Damascus and southern Syria
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⊘ 497/1104 |
Ṭughtigīn, Abū Manṣūr Ẓahīr al-Dīn |
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⊘ 522/1128 |
Böri b. Ṭughtigin, Abū Sa‘īd Tāj al-Mulūk |
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526/1132 |
Ismā‘īl b. Böri, Shams al-Mulūk |
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⊘ 529/1135 |
Maḥmūd b. Böri, Abu ’1-Qāsim Shihāb al-Dīn |
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533/1139 |
Muḥammad b. Böri, Abū Manṣūr Jamāl al-Dīn, Shams al-Dawla |
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⊘ 534–49/1140–54 |
Abaq b. Muḥammad, Abū Sa‘īd Mujīr al-Dīn, d. 564/1169 |
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549/1154 |
Succession in Damascus of the Zangid Nūr al-Dīn |
This Atabeg dynasty derived from Ṭughtigin, Atabeg to the Seljuq Amīr of Damascus Duqaq b. Tutush I (see above, no. 91, 2), who after the early death of the child Tutush II b. Duqaq became himself sole ruler in Damascus, founding a line which endured there for half a century. Ṭughtigin and his son Böri managed to maintain their power through skilful diplomacy with the Fāṭimids and timely agreements with the Frankish Crusaders, but these balancing policies were regarded with disfavour by the ‘Abbāsid caliphs and the Great Seljuq sultans in Iraq. Hence the later Börids came under increased pressure from the bellicosely Sunnī orthodox Zangids of Mosul and Aleppo (see below, no. 93), who attacked Damascus in 529/1135, and in 549/1154 the last Börid Abaq had to abandon his capital to Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Zangī.
Lane-Poole, 161; Zambaur, 225; Album, 22.
EI2 ‘Būrids’ (R. Le Tourneau); ‘Dimashḳ’ (N. Elisséeff).
M. Canard, ‘Fāṭimides et Būrides à l’époque du calife al-Ḥāfiẓ li-dīn-illāh’, REI, 35 (1967), 103–17.