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  • Turan-Shah
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  • Shams ad-Din Turanshah ibn Ayyub al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Shams ad-Dawla Fakhr ad-Din known simply as Turanshah () (d. June 27, 1180) was a Kurdish ruler, the Ayyubid prince (emir) of Yemen (1174-1180), Baalbek (1179), Damascus (1176-1179) and finally Alexandria where he died in 1180. He is noted for strengthening the position of his younger brother, Saladin, in Egypt and playing the leading role in the Ayyubid conquests of both Nubia and Yemen. Like many of the Ayyubids, little is known of his early life before his arrival in Egypt.
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place of burial
  • Damascus, Syria
Full Name
  • Shams ad-Din Turanshah ibn Ayyub al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Shams ad-Dawla Fakhr ad-Din
death place
  • Alexandria, Egypt
Name
  • Turanshah
coronation
  • 1174
Father
Birth Place
  • Syria
Title
  • Emir of Alexandria
  • Emir of Baalbek
  • Emir of Damascus
  • Emir of Yemen
death date
  • 1180-06-27
Successor
Religion
  • Sunni Islam
Reign
  • 1174
Dynasty
Predecessor
  • None
abstract
  • Shams ad-Din Turanshah ibn Ayyub al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Shams ad-Dawla Fakhr ad-Din known simply as Turanshah () (d. June 27, 1180) was a Kurdish ruler, the Ayyubid prince (emir) of Yemen (1174-1180), Baalbek (1179), Damascus (1176-1179) and finally Alexandria where he died in 1180. He is noted for strengthening the position of his younger brother, Saladin, in Egypt and playing the leading role in the Ayyubid conquests of both Nubia and Yemen. Like many of the Ayyubids, little is known of his early life before his arrival in Egypt.