Al-Aziz Muhammad | |
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Al-Malik al-Aziz | |
Emir of Aleppo | |
Reign | 8 October 1216 – 26 November 1236 |
Predecessor | Az-Zahir Ghazi |
Successor | An-Nasir Yusuf |
Regent | Shihab ad-Din Toghrul |
Born | c. 1213 |
Died | 26 November 1236 |
Spouse | Fatima Khatun |
Issue | An-Nasir Yusuf Ghaziya Khatun |
Dynasty | Ayyubid |
Father | Az-Zahir Ghazi |
Mother | Dayfa Khatun |
Religion | Islam |
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]