Historical dynasty of Turkoman origin (12–13th centuries AD)
Zengid State
الدولة الزنكية
1127–1250
The Zengid state under Zengi in 1145, and expansion under Nur al-Din in 1174 CE.[1]
Status
Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire (1127-1194) Emirate (1194-1250)
Capital
Damascus
Common languages
Oghuz Turkic Arabic (numismatics)[2]
Religion
Sunni Islam Shia Islam
Emir
• 1127–1146
Imad ad-Din Zengi (first)
• 1241–1250
Mahmud Al-Malik Al-Zahir (last reported)
History
• Established
1127
• Disestablished
1250
Currency
Dinar
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Great Seljuq Empire
County of Edessa
Fatimid Caliphate
Luluids
Ayyubids
Ilkhanate
The Zengid or Zangid dynasty (Arabic: الدولة الزنكية romanized: al-Dawla al-Zinkia) was an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire created in 1127.[3] It formed a Turkoman dynasty of Sunni Muslim faith,[4] which ruled parts of the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia, and eventually seized control of Egypt in 1169.[5][6] In 1174 the Zengid state extended from Tripoli to Hamadan and from Yemen to Sivas.[7][8] Imad ad-Din Zengi was the first ruler of the dynasty.
The Zengid Atabegate became famous in the Islamic world for its successes against the Crusaders, and for being the Atabegate from which Saladin originated.[9] Following the demise of the Seljuk dynasty in 1194, the Zengids persisted for several decades as one of the "Seljuq successor-states" until 1250.[10]
^Riley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher (1991). The atlas of the Crusades. New York : Facts on File. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-8160-2186-4.
^Canby et al. 2016, p. 69.
^El-Azhari 2019, p. 311.
^Bosworth 1996, p. 191.
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