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Emir of Damascus (1229–1237) After his brother al-Mu'azzam 's death in 1227, al-Ashraf received a request from his nephew, al-Muazzam's son, An-Nasir Dawud, for aid in opposing his brother al-Kamil of Egypt. Instead, al-Ashraf and al-Kamil came to an agreement to divide their nephew's lands between them. Al-Ashraf captured Damascus in June ...
- 1229–1237
- Sunni Islam
Al-Ashraf Musa (1229–1263), fully Al-Ashraf Musa ibn al-Mansur Ibrahim ibn Shirkuh ( Arabic: الأشرف موسى بن المنصور ابراهيم بن شيركوه ), was the last Ayyubid Kurdish prince ( emir) of Homs, a city located in the central region of modern-day Syria. His rule began in June 1246, but was temporarily cut short in ...
- 1246
- Amat al-Latif
- 1246–1263
- Al-Mansur Ibrahim
The family origins of Al-Ashraf Musa are not entirely clear. According to Lane-Poole, Al-Ashraf Musa was a descendant of Saladin and the great grandson of Az-Zahir Ghazi, Amir of Aleppo, who had struggled against Al-Adil for supremacy in the Ayyubid domains. His grandfather, the son of Az-Zahir, was al-Aziz Mohammad, also Amir of Aleppo, while ...
- Al Masoud ibn Al Kamel
- Sunni Islam
- 1250–1254
- Izz ad-Din Aybak
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Al-Ashraf or al-Ashraf Musa ( d. 27 August 1237), fully Al-Ashraf Musa Abu'l-Fath al-Muzaffar ad-Din, was a ruler of the Ayyubid dynasty . The son of Sultan al-Adil I, al-Ashraf was installed by his father in Harran in 1201 as Governor of the Jezireh. After his brother al-Mu'azzam 's death in 1227, al-Ashraf received a request from his nephew ...
Al-Ashraf Musa , fully Al-Ashraf Musa ibn al-Mansur Ibrahim ibn Shirkuh , was the last Ayyubid Kurdish prince of Homs, a city located in the central region of modern-day Syria. His rule began in June 1246, but was temporarily cut short in 1248 after he was forced to surrender Homs and then given Tall Bashir by his cousin an-Nasir Yusuf, the Emir of Aleppo. For a short period of time during ...
Instead, al-Ashraf and al-Kamil came to an agreement to divide their nephew's lands between them. Al-Ashraf captured Damascus in June 1229 and took control of the city, serving as emir of Damascus until his death in 1237. He took Baalbek as well in 1230. In return, he ceded his lands in Mesopotamia to al-Kamil and acknowledged his supremacy ...
From this position of weakness, al-Ashraf arrived at as-Salih Ayyub's court in Damascus during the spring of 1247 in order to gain his patronage. As-Salih, the sultan of Egypt and Damascus, was the strongest Ayyubid emir ("prince") at the time and least inclined to central rule, which mean that al-Ashraf could rule Homs with relative autonomy.
