Imad al-Din Zengi

Names
	Imad al-Din Atabeg Zengi al-Malik al-Mansur

Imad al-Din Zengi
Imad al-Din Zengi
Atabeg of Mosul, Aleppo, Hama and Edessa, Mesopotamia
	Ruler in Turkic military dress: long braids, sharbush fur hat, boots, close-fitting coat. Maqamat by Al-Hariri of Basra (1054–1122), a high government official of the Seljuks. Mesopotamia, possibly Baghdad, 1237 copy.
Atabeg of Zengid dynasty
Reign	1124-1127: Seljuk Governor of Wasit and Basra; 1126-1127: Seljuk Shihna, Governor of Iraq; 1127–1146: Atabeg of Mosul
Coronation	1127, Mosul
Successor	Nur ad-Din Zengi (in Aleppo); Sayf al-Din Ghazi I (in Mosul)
Born	1085
Died	September 14, 1146 (aged 61); Qal'at Ja'bar, Syria
Spouse	Zumurrud Khatun; Sukmana Khatun; Safiya Khatun
Names
Names
	Imad al-Din Atabeg Zengi al-Malik al-Mansur
Dynasty	Zengid dynasty
Father	Aq Sunqur al-Hajib
Religion	Islam
Military career
Battles/wars	Siege of Hama (1130); Battle of al-Atharib (1130); Battle of Rafaniyya; Zengid campaign against Antioch; Battle of Qinnasrin; Battle of Ba'rin; Siege of Aleppo (1138); Siege of Shaizar; Siege of Baalbek; Siege of Edessa (1144); Fall of Saruj;

Imad al-Din Zengi (Arabic: عماد الدین زنكي; c. 1085 – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the Seljuk Empire,^[3] who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake and founder of the Zengid dynasty of atabegs.

^ ^a ^b Flood, Finbarr Barry (2017). "A Turk in the Dukhang? Comparative Perspectives on Elite Dress in Medieval Ladakh and the Caucasus". Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia. Austrian Academy of Science Press: 232.
^ ^a ^b ^c Alptekin, C. (1972). The Reign of Zangī (521-541/1127-1146). University of London. pp. 47, 98, 133.
^ El-Azhari, Taef (2016). "The early career of Zengi, 1084 to 1127. The Turkmen influence.". Zengi and the Muslim Response to the Crusades. London and New York: Routledge. p. 10. This chapter is concerned with Zengi's early career and upbringing, his Seldjuk background...

[FB232-1] Flood, Finbarr Barry (2017). "A Turk in the Dukhang? Comparative Perspectives on Elite Dress in Medieval Ladakh and the Caucasus". Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia. Austrian Academy of Science Press: 232.

[Alptekin-2] Alptekin, C. (1972). The Reign of Zangī (521-541/1127-1146). University of London. pp. 47, 98, 133.

[3] El-Azhari, Taef (2016). "The early career of Zengi, 1084 to 1127. The Turkmen influence.". Zengi and the Muslim Response to the Crusades. London and New York: Routledge. p. 10. This chapter is concerned with Zengi's early career and upbringing, his Seldjuk background...

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