Sin-ed-din

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14458

i.e. Sayf al-Din Ghazi: Brother of Nur al-Din and the Zangid ruler of Mosul.

Names

  • Hebrew: זין אל דין = ZYN ʾL DYN 1
  • Syriac: ܓܐܙܝ ܣܝܦܠܕܝܢ = GʾZY SYPLDYΝ 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 1149

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Sin-ed-din: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 52, 81 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 637 [Syriac].
    • Ghazi Saïf ed-Dîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 268, 275 [French].
    • Ghāzī Sayf-al-dīn son of Zangi: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 232, 246 & n.699 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Sin-ed-din” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14458.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and gender assignment, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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