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Damage to the pyramid, by Sultan Al-Aziz Uthman. In AD 1196, Al-Aziz Uthman, Saladin's son and the Sultan of Egypt, attempted to demolish the pyramids, starting with that of Menkaure. Workmen recruited to demolish the pyramid stayed at their job for eight months, but found it almost as expensive to destroy as to build.
Turanshah, also Turan Shah ( Arabic: توران شاه ), (? – 2 May 1250), ( epithet: al-Malik al-Muazzam Ghayath al-Din Turanshah ( Arabic: الملك المعظم غياث الدين توران شاه )) was a Kurdish ruler of Egypt, a son of Sultan As-Salih Ayyub. A member of the Ayyubid Dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt for a brief ...
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May 6, 2023 · In this video, we delve into the story of Al Aziz Uthman, an Egyptian ruler from the 12th century who shocked the world with his controversial plan to destro...
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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 ( Arabic: توران شاه بن أيوب) (died 27 June 1180) was the Ayyubid emir (prince) of Yemen (1174–1176), Damascus (1176–1179), Baalbek (1178–1179) and finally Alexandria where he died in 1180. He is noted for strengthening ...
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Al-Baghdadi lived contemporaneously with these events; in fact, Al-Aziz Uthman, the sultan in the tale, was his patron at one point. (Though presumably the account below was promulgated after he left al-Aziz's patronage, given how poorly the story reflects on al-Aziz.)
