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Zangī b. Aq Sunqur ʿImād al-Dīn

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founder of the Zangid dynasties of Mosul and Aleppo

Names

  • Arabic: زنكي بن أق سنقر عماد الدين = Zankī b. Aq Sunqur ʿImād al-Dīn 1
  • Syriac: ܙܢܓܝ ܒܪ ܐܩܣܢܩܘܪ = ZΝGY BR ʾQSΝQWR 2
  • Syriac: ܙܢܓܝ ܥܘܡܪ ܐܠܕܝܢ = ZΝGY ʿWMR ʾLDYΝ 3

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2-3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 54 (4) 149 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 607 [Syriac].
    • Zangui ‘Imad ed-Dîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 216, 229, 230, 233, 236-238, 240-243, 246, 248-250, 258, 260-265, 267, 270, 274, 277, 281, 325, 326, 332 [French].
    • 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), x, xv, xvi, xvii, xxi–xxiii, 82 n. 276, 96 n.302, 134, 156, 158 & nn.484–845, 160 & n.491, 164, 170, 172 & n.516, 174, 178, 180 & n.539, 182, 194, 196, 198, 218, 220, 222, 224, 226, 228, 232 & n.664, 234, 236 & n.699, 252, 258, 260, 320, 326, 398 n.1094 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 614 [Syriac].
    • Zangui ‘Imâd ed-Dîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 229 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Zangī b. Aq Sunqur ʿImād al-Dīn” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/4268.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • 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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