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Muslim ibn Quraysh

d. 1085 · 11th century

Muslim ibn Quraysh, called Sharaf al-Dawla, was the Uqaylid emir of Mosul from 1061 to 1085 and one of the leading Arab princes of Iraq and Syria under Seljuk overlordship. He took Aleppo in 1080 and held Harran and other towns of the Jazira. He was killed in 1085 fighting Sulayman ibn Qutalmish, the Seljuk ruler of Anatolia, near Antioch.

Muslim ibn Quraysh
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Mentioned in 3 state histories

Uqaylid dynastyNumayridsMirdasid Emirate

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