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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.
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria .
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.”.
The entrance to the palace is through a monumental portal in the form of a recessed niche vaulted with muqarnas, framed with ablaq stripes and surmounted by a geometric frieze based on a star pattern. Within the niche, the doorway is framed by joggled stones in alternating black and white carved with a geometric pattern.
Al-Muʿaẓẓam Tūrānshāh ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn ( – 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".
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.
