(Except three of mine, all of the coins you will see in this page belong to
our friend, Edmond Michael Wardeh. Thanks to him.)
The first subject in question is when and how long was Malik
al-Salih Ismail under the suzerainty of Kay-Khusraw II of Seljuqs of Rum.
According to Ibn Bibi, al-Salih Ismail has become the governor of Dimashq at the
date of Dhu al Qada 11, 638 AH and he had the hutbe read for the name of
Kay-Khusraw II. At this time already all Ayyubid Maliks except al-Salih
Najm al-Din Ayyub of Egypt, Artuq Arslan of Artuqids of Mardin, Armenians of
Cilicia, Trebizond Rums and even Byzantines of Iznik were dependent to Seljuqs of Rum. In 639 AH, making use of Babai uprisings in Anatolia, Malik Shahab
ad-Din Ghazi of Mayafarikin has moved to capture Diyarbakir. Then Malik
al-Salih Ismail has sent an Ayyubid force under the command of Malik Muazzam to
help Seljuqs against Shahab ad-Din Ghazi. But because of increasing Mongol
pressure over Eastern Anatolia and that the Caliph was demanding peace between
two Muslim leaders, the two sides have decided to stop the battle. Just
after this event, Bayju Noyan has entered Anatolia and moved toward Erzurum.
Kay-Khusraw sent one of his viziers, Shams al-Din Isfahani with a lot money by
him, to Ayyubid Maliks to get their help. But he has got a positive answer
only from Malik al-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf of Haleb, who was already the father
in-law of Kay-Khusraw and who was married in the same time Kay-Khusraw's sister.
This dependency of Ayyubid Maliks to Seljuqs of Rum lasted until or just before
Seljuqs were defeated by Mongols at Kosedag at the date of Muharram 14, 641 AH.
For this period of time we have two coins. One of them
is citing only al-Salih Ismail and bearing a date of 638 AH. This
points that al-Salih Ismail has not gone under Seljuqs' overlordship as soon as
he has got the power in Dimashq as Ibn Bibi says. The
other one is citing al-Salih Ismail and Kay-Khusraw II together. Its date,
unfortunately, is out of flan but citing al-Musta'sim as the Caliph (640-656 AH),
not al-Mustansir (623-640 AH). So it should be dated for 640 or later but
probably before Kose Dag defeat. We have 9 more coins of al-Salih Ismail,
five citing al-Mustansir and four, al-Musta'sim. Some of them seems to
have readable dates but at least we could not do it. Let us see what you
will do.
We have two coins citing al-Salih Ismail and
al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub together and one coin al-Salih Ismail
alone, all three bearing the date of 641 AH.
This shows us that al-Salih Ismail has got his freedom following Kose
Dag defeat in 641 for a short time then entered under the suzerainty of Egypt
from 641 to 643 when Dimashq was entirely united with Egypt.
Click thumbnails to see the
coins.
1-) The coins citing "Al-Salih 'Isma'il" alone and the caliph
"Al-Mustansir bi-Allah Abu Ja'far al-Mansur (623-640 AH, 1226-1242 AD)"
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638 AH, 6EWismail5 |
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638 AH, 6ME503 |
2-) The coins citing "Al-Salih 'Isma'il" alone and the caliph
"al-Musta'sim bi-Allah Abu Ahmad Abdullah (640-656 AH, 1242-1258 AD)"
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"'Imad al-Din" instead of
"'Imad al-Dunya wa al-Din"
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3-) The coins citing "Al-Salih 'Isma'il" under the suzerainty of
"Kay-Khusraw II (634-644 AH, 1237-1246 AD)" of Seljuqs of Rum.
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4-)The coins citing "Al-Salih 'Isma'il" under the suzerainty of
"al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (636-647 AH, 1240-1249 AD)" of Ayyubids of Egypt.
641 AH, 4EWayyism02 |
641 AH, 4EWayyism03 |
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