Qutb al-Din Mawdud

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Qutb al-Din Mawdud
Zengid Dynasty
FatherImad al-Din Zengi
ReligionSunni Islam

Qutb al-Din Mawdud (died 6 September 1170) was the

Emir of Mosul from 1149 to 1169. He was the son of Imad al-Din Zengi and brother and successor of Sayf al-Din Ghazi I.[3][4]

Biography

At the death of Zengi, his possessions were divided between his sons:

Emirate of Damascus
, forced Nur al-Din to renounce to the expedition and to reconcile with his brother.

Qutb al-Din Mawdud participated to the

Seljuq attempt to capture Baghdad from the Abbasids, but Caliph al-Muqtafi
successfully defended his capital against the coalition.

During his reign in Mosul, Qutb held the Seljuq prince, Suleiman-Shah b. Muhammad b. Malik Shah, as a prisoner until 1160.

Artuqid emirs of Mardin and Diyarbakır, as well as Mawdud, joined him in the attack, which turned to be successful: the towns of Harim and Banias were captured, and Amalric had to abandon Egypt. For the same reason, Mawdud helped his brother in the County of Tripoli
in 1167.

At the beginning of 1168, Kara Arslan, the Artuqid emir of Hasankeyf, died, and Qutb al-Din Mawdud tried to conquer that city; but he was pushed back by Nur al-Din, who had promised to defend Arslan's successors.

Qutb al-Din Mawdud died in September 1170. He had designed as successor his second son Sayf al-Din Ghazi II.[3]

Zengid zodiacal signs.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ "Copper alloy dirham of Qutb al-Din Mawdud ibn Zengi, al-Mawsil, 556 H. 1917.215.1000". numismatics.org. American Numismatic Society.
  2. Anadolu Üniversitesi. Archived
    from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b "MEVDÛD b. İMÂDÜDDİN ZENGÎ". TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  4. ^ Bosworth 1996, p. 190
    "1. The main line in Mosul and Aleppo:
    *521/1127 Zangi I b. Qasim al-Dawla Aq Sunqur, 'Imad al-Din
    *541/1146 Ghazi I b. Zangi I, Sayf al-Din
    *544/1149 Mawdud b. Zangi I, Qutb al-Din (...)
    2. The line in Damascus and then Aleppo
    *541/1147 Mahmud b. Zangi, Abu ’1-Qasim al-Malik al-'Adil Nur al-Din, in Aleppo and then Damascus (...)"
  5. ^ The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World, C.E. Bosworth, The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 5, ed. John Andrew Boyle, (Cambridge University Press, 1968), 169.
  6. ^
    ISSN 0253-1623. Contrary to information still found in some non-academic publications, the bridge which either spanned or was intended to span the river Tigris a few kilometers downstream from what is now the Turkish frontier town of Cizre is not a Roman construction. Nor is there real evidence that any pre-Islamic bridge was ever built at this location. Arabic historical sources make clear that the existing, largely ruined or perhaps never completed bridge dates from between 541 AH (1146/7 AD) and 559 AH (1163/4 AD) 1163 AD. It was constructed on the orders of, or sponsored by Ǧamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī Ibn ʿAlī Ibn Abī Manṣūr, the wazīr or chief minister of Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd Ibn Zangī, the Zangid ruler of Mosul
    .

See also

Sources

  • Bosworth, C.E. (1996). The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Grousset, René (1935). Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem - II. 1131-1187. L'équilibre.


Regnal titles
Preceded by
Emir of Mosul

1149–1169 		Succeeded by
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