Al-Aziz Muhammad

Al-Aziz Muhammad
Al-Malik al-Aziz
Emir of Aleppo
Reign8 October 1216 – 26 November 1236
PredecessorAz-Zahir Ghazi
SuccessorAn-Nasir Yusuf
RegentShihab ad-Din Toghrul
Bornc. 1213
Died26 November 1236
SpouseFatima Khatun
IssueAn-Nasir Yusuf
Ghaziya Khatun
DynastyAyyubid
FatherAz-Zahir Ghazi
MotherDayfa Khatun
ReligionIslam

Al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi (c. 1213 – 26 November 1236) was the Kurdish Ayyubid Emir of Aleppo and the son of az-Zahir Ghazi and grandson of Saladin. His mother was Dayfa Khatun, the daughter of Saladin's brother al-Adil.

Al-Aziz was aged just three when his father az-Zahir Ghazi died in 1216 at the age of forty-five. He immediately inherited his father's position as ruler of Aleppo. A regency council was formed, which appointed Shihab ad-Din Toghrul as his Atabeg or guardian. Toghril was a mamluk of az-Zahir Ghazi and the effective ruler of Aleppo for the next fifteen years.[1]

  1. ^ Tabbaa, Yasser, Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-271-01562-4, p.29