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Asad ad-Dīn Shīrkūh bin Shādhī (Kurdish: ئەسەدەدین شێرکۆ, romanized: Esed El-Dîn Şêrko; Arabic: أسد الدين شيركوه بن شاذي), also known as Shirkuh, or Şêrko...

Shirkuh or Shir Kuh or ShirKooh (Persian: شيركوه) in Iran may refer to: Shir Kuh, Gilan Shirkuh, Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, Gilan province Shirkuh-e Chahardeh...

of Jerusalem. Shawar then argued with Shirkuh, and allied with the Crusader king, Amalric I, who attacked Shirkuh at Bilbeis, in August–October 1164. The...

a Zengid army under Shirkuh, both hoped to take the control of Egypt over from the Fatimid Caliphate. Saladin served as Shirkuh’s highest-ranking officer...

during Shirkuh's invasion and Shawar was restored as vizier. Shawar immediately expelled Shirkuh and allied with Amalric, who arrived to besiege Shirkuh at...

ad-Din, who sent his general Shirkuh to settle the dispute in 1164. In response Dirgham sought help from Amalric, but Shirkuh and Shawar arrived before Amalric...

Mamluk Rule. Muhammad ibn Shirkuh, son of Shirkuh (uncle of Saladin), 1178–1186 Al-Mujahid Shirkuh, son of Muhammad ibn Shirkuh, 1186–1240 Al-Mansur Ibrahim...

general Shirkuh to counter the Crusaders. For a while, Shawar played the Crusaders and Syrians against one another, but in January 1169, Shirkuh overthrew...

while Shirkuh pursued Crusader forces in Lower Egypt. Shawar died in 1169 and Shirkuh became vizier, but he too died later that year. After Shirkuh's death...

ad-Din Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Asad ad-Din Shirkuh (sometimes referred to as Nasr ad-Din ibn Shirkuh and al-Malik al-Qahir) was the Kurdish Ayyubid...

Syria, Upper Mesopotamia, the Hejaz, Yemen, and Nubia. Alongside his uncle Shirkuh, a Kurdish Mercenary commander in service of the Zengid dynasty, Saladin...

arrived in Egypt alongside his uncle Shirkuh on a campaign launched by Nur al-Din. He would rise to prominence under Shirkuh eventually succeeding him as vizier...

Shirkuh Mahalleh (Persian: شيركوه محله, also Romanized as Shīrkūh Maḩalleh) is a village in Malfejan Rural District, in the Central District of Siahkal...

vizier, from December 1162 until his assassination in 1169 by the general Shirkuh, the uncle of the future Ayyubid leader Saladin, with whom he was engaged...

also Romanized as Ḩoseynābād; also known as ’oseynābād) is a village in Shirkuh Rural District, in the Central District of Taft County, Yazd Province,...

Shirkuh-e Chahardeh (Persian: شيركوه چهارده) is a village in, and the capital of, Chahardeh Rural District of the Central District of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh...

Nur ad-Din, who complied and, in 1164, sent Shirkuh to aid Shawar in his expedition against Dirgham. Shirkuh's nephew Saladin, at age 26, went along with...

Ayyubid dynasty. Ayyub was the son of Shadhi ibn Marwan and brother of Shirkuh. The family belonged to the tribe of Revend or Revendi, also Kurdish Rawadiya...

Shirkuh castle (Persian: قلعه شیرکوه) is a historical castle located in Qazvin County in Qazvin Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to...

besieged Shirkuh in Bilbeis for three months; at the end of this time, owing to the successes of Nureddin in Syria, the Franks granted Shirkuh a free passage...