, the fifth ruler of the Turkmen Artuḳid dynasty [q.v.] in Ḥiṣn Kayfā and most of Diyār Bakr, d. in Rabīʿ I 581/June 1185.

He succeeded on his father Ḳara Arslan’s death, in 562/1166-7 according to the chronicles (although numismatic evidence suggests that the latter may have lived till 570/1174-5), having promised his father to continue support for the Zangid ruler Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd’s [q.v.] d̲j̲ihād against the Franks, a commitment which he in fact honoured by bringing troops to Niṣibīn in 566/1170-1. But after the Zangid’s death in 569/1174, Nūr al-Dīn Muḥ…