Imad al-Din Zengi
| Imad al-Din Zengi | |||||
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| Atabeg of Mosul, Aleppo, Hama and Edessa, Mesopotamia | |||||
Ruler in Turkic military dress: long braids, sharbush fur hat, boots, close-fitting coat. Maqamat by Al-Hariri of Basra (1054–1122), a high government official of the Seljuks. Mesopotamia, possibly Baghdad, 1237 copy. | |||||
| Atabeg of Zengid dynasty | |||||
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| Coronation | 1127, Mosul, Seljuk Empire | ||||
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| Born | c. 1084/88 | ||||
| Died | September 14, 1146 (aged 61) Qal'at Ja'bar, Seljuk Empire | ||||
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| Dynasty | Zengid dynasty | ||||
| Father | Aq Sunqur al-Hajib | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
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Imad al-Din Zengi (Arabic: عماد الدین زنكي; c. 1084/88 – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the Seljuk Empire, who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake and founder of the Zengid dynasty of atabegs.