Al-Malik al-Mansur Izz ad-Din Abu Sa'id Farrukhshah Dawud was the
Ayyubid Emir of Baalbek between 1179 and 1182 and ''Na'ib'' (Viceroy) of Damascus.
Biography
Farrukh was the son of
Saladin
Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سهلاحهدین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...
's brother
Nur ad-Din Shahanshah
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and the older brother of
Taqi ad-Din Umar who became Emir of
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In 1178 Saladin decided that the administration of his brother
Shams ad-Din Turan-Shah in Damascus was too lax, and its relations with the
Zengid rulers of Aleppo rather too friendly. He therefore moved Turan-Shah and selected his nephew Farrukh Shah as his successor. Farrukhshah had already proved himself to be a good soldier and he appears to have met Saladin’s expectations as an administrator, as he remained viceroy of Damascus until his death in October 1182 (Jumada 1 578).
Turan-Shah was compensated for his loss of Damascus with the domain of
Baalbek
Baalbek (; ar, بَعْلَبَكّ, Baʿlabakk, Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. In Greek and Roman ...
, but he did not hold it for long. In May 1179 (Dhu’l Qa’da 574) Saladin moved him again and made him governor of Alexandria. For a second time, Farrukhshah was the beneficiary of Turan-Shah’s removal and Saladin gave him Baalbek. Much of his reign was occupied in supporting Saladin’s wars against the Crusaders. Shortly after his appointment to Baalbek, Farrukh Shah won a victory near the fortress of
Belfort
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against
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, killing
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Farrukh Shah died in September 1182 (Jumada I 578) leaving a young boy,
al-Amjad Bahramshah, as his successor.
[Humphreys, R. Stephen, From Saladin to the Mongols, SUNY Press 1977 p.52]
References
{{Ayyubid dynasty
1182 deaths
12th-century Kurdish people
12th-century Ayyubid rulers
Kurdish rulers
Syrian Kurdish people
Muslims of the Third Crusade
12th-century Syrian people
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