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The Battle of al-Babein took place on March 18, 1167, during the third Crusader invasion of Egypt.[1]

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  1. 25 relations: Aleppo, Amalric of Jerusalem, Battle of Inab, Caliphate, Christopher Tyerman, Crusader invasions of Egypt, Crusades, Damascus, Egypt, Fatimid Caliphate, Giza, Imad al-Din Zengi, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Templar, Military order (religious society), Nur al-Din Zengi, Raymond of Poitiers, Saladin, Seljuk Empire, Shawar, Shirkuh, Syria, Turcopole, Zengid dynasty.

  2. 1160s in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
  3. 1167
  4. 12th century in the Fatimid Caliphate
  5. Battles involving the Fatimid Caliphate
  6. Battles involving the Kingdom of Jerusalem
  7. Battles of the Crusades
  8. Conflicts in 1167
  9. Egypt under the Fatimid Caliphate

Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Amalric of Jerusalem

Amalric or Amaury I (Amalricus; Amaury; 113611 July 1174) was King of Jerusalem from 1163, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession.

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Battle of Inab

The Battle of Inab, also called Battle of Ard al-Hâtim or Fons Muratus, was fought on 29 June 1149, during the Second Crusade. Battle of al-Babein and Battle of Inab are Battles involving the Seljuk Empire.

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Caliphate

A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.

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Christopher Tyerman

Christopher Tyerman (born 22 May 1953) is a British academic and historian focusing on the Crusades.

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Crusader invasions of Egypt

A series of Crusader invasions of Egypt were undertaken by the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1163 to 1169 to strengthen its position in the Levant by taking advantage of the weakness of the Fatimid Caliphate. Battle of al-Babein and Crusader invasions of Egypt are 1160s in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 12th century in the Fatimid Caliphate and Egypt under the Fatimid Caliphate.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Fatimid Caliphate

The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.

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Giza

Giza (sometimes spelled Gizah, Gizeh, Geeza, Jiza; al-Jīzah,, الجيزة) is the third-largest city in Egypt by area after Cairo and Alexandria; and fourth-largest city in Africa by population after Kinshasa, Lagos, and Cairo.

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Imad al-Din Zengi

Imad al-Din Zengi (عماد الدین زنكي; – 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.

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Kingdom of Jerusalem

The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as the Latin Kingdom, was a Crusader state that was established in the Levant immediately after the First Crusade.

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Knights Hospitaller

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller, is a Catholic military order.

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Knights Templar

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity.

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Military order (religious society)

A military order (militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights.

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Nur al-Din Zengi

Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a Turkoman member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire.

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Raymond of Poitiers

Raymond of Poitiers (c. 1105 – 29 June 1149) was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149.

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Saladin

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

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Seljuk Empire

The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks.

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Shawar

Shawar ibn Mujir al-Sa'di (Shāwar ibn Mujīr al-Saʿdī; died 18 January 1169) was an Arab de facto ruler of Fatimid Egypt, as its vizier, from December 1162 until his assassination in 1169 by the general Shirkuh, the uncle of the future Ayyubid leader Saladin, with whom he was engaged in a three-way power struggle against the Crusader Amalric I of Jerusalem.

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Shirkuh

Asad ad-Dīn Shīrkūh bin Shādhī (أسد الدين شيركوه بن شاذي), also known as Shirkuh, or Şêrko (meaning "lion of the mountains" in Kurdish) (died 22 February 1169) was a Kurdish Mercenary commander in service of the Zengid dynasty, and uncle of Saladin.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Turcopole

During the period of the Crusades, turcopoles (also "turcoples" or "turcopoli"; from the τουρκόπουλοι, literally "sons of Turks") were locally recruited mounted archers and light cavalry employed by the Byzantine Empire and the Crusader states.

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Zengid dynasty

The Zengid or Zangid dynasty, Atabegs of Mosul (Arabic: الدولة الزنكية romanized: al-Dawla al-Zinkia) was an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire created in 1127.

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See also

1160s in the Kingdom of Jerusalem

1167

  • 1167
  • Battle of al-Babein

12th century in the Fatimid Caliphate

Battles involving the Fatimid Caliphate

Battles involving the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Battles of the Crusades

Conflicts in 1167

Egypt under the Fatimid Caliphate

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_al-Babein

Also known as Al Babayn, Battle of Beben, Battle of Lamonia.