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Al-Muʿaẓẓam Tūrānshāh ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (c. 1181 – 1260) was a Kurdish military commander and Ayyubid prince, a son of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). For his long but undistinguished career, he has been described as "a courageous if not very gifted soldier".
Turanshah, also Turan Shah (Arabic: توران شاه), (? – 2 May 1250), (epithet: al-Malik al-Muazzam Ghayath al-Din Turanshah (Arabic: الملك المعظم غياث الدين توران شاه)) was a Kurdish ruler of Egypt, a son of Sultan As-Salih Ayyub.
Following his death, a number of candidates were considered for the role of vizier to al-Adid, most of whom were ethnic Kurds. Their ethnic solidarity came to shape the Ayyubid family's actions in their political career. Saladin and his close associates were wary of Turkish influence.
Turan Shah ibn al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (royal title al-Mu‘azzam) was the last Ayyubid sultan of Egypt (March-May 1250). He was one of four sons of Sultan al-Salih, and he acted. As his father’s deputy at Hisn Kayfa and other dominions of Diyar Bakr until al-Salih‘s death.
Citation. “A list of caliphs and wazirs in the Islamic world covering dynastic reigns (Rashidun, Umayyad, ‘Abbasid, Barmakid, Tulunid, Ikhshidid, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Seljuqs, etc.) across Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Turkey, and the rest of Western Asia.”.
Palace of al-Malik al-Zahir Ghazi. Aleppo, Syria. Within the Citadel of Aleppo lie the ruins of a monumental portal and palatine structure immediately behind it attributed to the patronage of the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Zahir Ghazi (r. in Aleppo from 1188-1216/ 582-613 AH).
Al-Malik az-Zahir Ghazi (1172-1216) was the third son of Saladin, and was a legitimate heir to the Ayyubid Empire. In 1186, at the age of 15, he became Governor of Aleppo and Mosul, and sided with Al-Aziz and Al-Adil against his brother Al-Afdal in the succession war following his father's death.
Turanshah, also Turan Shah (Arabic: توران شاه ), (? – 2 May 1250), (epithet: al-Malik al-Muazzam Ghayath al-Din Turanshah (Arabic: الملك المعظم غياث الدين توران شاه )) was a Kurdish ruler of Egypt, a son of Sultan As-Salih Ayyub.
He was born during Ramadan of 568/April 1173 and died on 20 Jumada al-Thani 613/ 4 October 1216. [From EI2 s.v. al-Malik al-Zahir Ghazi.] He was married to Dhayfa Khatun.
Al-Muʿaẓẓam Tūrānshāh ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn was a Kurdish military commander and Ayyubid prince, a son of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). For his long but undistinguished career, he has been described as "a courageous if not very gifted soldier".
