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Summary Of: Nur ad-Din

Nur ad-Din was the second son of... Nur ad-Din and his older brother... Nur ad-Din exiled the entire Christian population of the city... Nur ad-Din sought to make alliances with his Muslim neighbours in northern... Din and Nur ad-Din besieged the cities of... Nur ad-Din curtailed his stay in Damascus and turned instead towards the Principality of Antioch... Nur ad-Din took advantage of the failure of the crusade to prepare another attack against Antioch... Nur ad-Din marched all the way to the coast and expressed his dominance of Syria by symbolically... Nur ad-Din tried but failed to prevent King... Din recognized Nur ad-Din as overlord of Mosul... Nur ad-Din besieged the city... Din forbade Nur ad-Din from travelling across his territory... Din allowed Nur ad-Din to overthrow him in... Nur ad-Din sent ambassadors and negotiated an alliance with the emperor against the Seljuks... Nur ad-Din captured the Prince of Antioch... Nur ad-Din made a pilgrimage to... but it provoked Nur ad-Din to lead a campaign of his own against the crusaders in Syria in order to... Nur ad-Din did not want to spare his own army for a defense of Egypt... after Nur ad-Din attacked Antioch and... Nur ad-Din routed the combined armies of Antioch and Tripoli... but Amalric could not hold the country while Nur ad-Din still held Syria... This time Nur ad-Din gained full control of Egypt... During this time Nur ad-Din was busy in the north... Nur ad-Din believed that he had accomplished his goal of uniting the Muslim states... did not participate in the invasions led by Nur ad-Din against Jerusalem in... Nur ad-Din realized that he had created a dangerous opponent in Saladin... when Nur ad-Din was on the verge of invading Egypt in... Nur ad-Din was especially religious after his illness and his... Nur ad-Din also constructed universities and mosques in all the cities he controlled... Nur ad-Din himself enjoyed to have specialists read to him from the Hadith... generally speaks of Nur ad-Din in majestic terms...

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