emirate · Anatolia and the Levant

Ayyubid Emirate of Mayyafariqin

1185 CE – 1260 CE · capital Mayyafariqin

The Ayyubid principality of Diyar Bakr, whose last prince died resisting the Mongols after a long siege in 1260.

Origins

Saladin took Mayyafariqin in 1185 from the Shah-Armens' sphere; after a period under his nephew Taqi al-Din it passed to his brother al-Adil, whose son al-Awhad Ayyub ruled it and in 1207 took Ahlat. It became a hereditary Ayyubid principality in the Jazira.

Rule and society

The principality passed to al-Ashraf Musa and then to al-Muzaffar Ghazi, sons of al-Adil, and then to Ghazi's son al-Kamil Muhammad. Its rulers controlled the old Marwanid capital, rich farmland north of the Tigris and roads to Ahlat. They faced the Khwarazmians, the Sultanate of Rum and finally the Mongols. Al-Kamil Muhammad defied Hulagu.

Decline and legacy

Mongol forces besieged Mayyafariqin from 1259; in 1260 the city fell after famine, al-Kamil Muhammad was killed and his head was paraded in Syrian cities.

Connections (2)

  • Ayyubid Emirate of Mayyafariqin was part of Ayyubid Empire1185 CE – 1260 CE
  • Ayyubid Emirate of Mayyafariqin was conquered by Ilkhanate1260 CE

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