Rise of Imad al-Din Zengi - Battle of Montferrand - Second Crusade

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[maxsterling]

Nuredin is my favourite person from that era. A man of great morals. Even though he was an enemy of Christendom but he was just to his Christian subjects. That is what a true leader is.

[socratesii]

Imad Zengid create two great character in his lifetime, Nuradin and Salahudin. This guy is phenomenon

[roihanfadhil]

Ah, yes, I will finally see the lesser-known Eastern Roman involvement in the Second Crusades on the next video ❤❤.

[cubbelicommando]

Imad al-Din Zengi continued his attempts to take Damascus in 1145, but he was assassinated by a Frankish slave named Yarankash in 1146. Zengi was the founder of the eponymous Zengid dynasty. In Mosul he was succeeded by his eldest son Saif ad-Din Ghazi I, and in Aleppo he was succeeded by his second son Nur ad- Din.

According to Crusader legend, Zengi's mother was Ida of Austria (mother of Leopold III of Austria), who had supposedly been captured during the Crusade of 1101 and placed in a harem. She was 46 in 1101, Zengi was born in 1085, and his father died in 1094 so this is not feasible.

Zengi was courageous, strong in leadership and a very skilled warrior according to all of the Muslim chroniclers of his day.

Unlike Saladin at Jerusalem in 1187, Zengi did not keep his word to protect his captives at Baalbek in 1139. According to Ibn al-'Adim, Zengi "had sworn to the people of the citadel with strong oaths and on the Qur'an and divorcing (his wives). When they came down from the citadel he betrayed them, flayed its governor and hanged the rest."

According to Ibn 'al-Adim:

The atebeg was violent, powerful, awe-inspiring and liable to attack suddenly... When he rode, the troops use to walk behind him as if they were between two threads, out of fear they would trample over crops, and nobody out of fear dared to trample on a single stem (of them) nor march his horse on them... If anyone transgressed, he was crucified. He (Zengi) used to say: "It does not happen that there is more than one tyrant (meaning himself) at one time."

[malikshah]

Imad Al Din Zengi was a fearless warrior, his soldiers respected him, his opponents feared him and the caliph gave him the title “Champion of the true Faith” when he defeated the crusaders in Edessa. ☪️ 🇹🇷 ❤

[benimtelefoncaliyordk]

Turks indeed had a decisive role in triggering historical major events like the Migration Period, Crusades, Balkanization, Islamization of Northern India, Age of Discovery as well as ending the Middle Ages with the conquest of Constantinople, fall of the Roman Empire.

[jaohonaxa]

Baldwin died peacefully of natural causes in Jerusalem, and Joscelin died on the side of a road because he lost his temper and did something reckless. That feels fairly in line with what we've learned up to this point.

[cengizsogutlu]

Its a bird! Its a plane! Its the Zengi Khan!

[shaundorrington]

Great video as always, just letting you know at 6.05 the text is repeated from the last one :) Keep up the good work though

[ronjohnson]

Interesting stuff. I like how Fulk's sloppiness went oh so badly for him. Getting to the scene as quickly as possible is sometimes not as effective as getting there as quickly as is practical.

[franciscojorgesousaandrade]

As always a video with great information, quality and the channel's budget is larger, I already got my evening snack to watch the documentary, I find few videos on the Internet addressing other Muslim commanders prior to Saladin, now I hope in the future a video about Noradine and to cover the Georgian crusades in the Caucasus during the reign of George III and Tamar.

[yusufh]

Love to see your style always improving and evolving. Great video!

[sad_man_no_talent]

clearly one of the best channel for history

[theultimatedude-qn]

Great part of history I wasn't familiar with, thanks.

[KevinSalahuddin]

Just a note for the producers: In Arabic language, if you have a name made of two names like 'Imad ad-Din (عماد الدين), if you chose the short version like it is written for his character in the video, it should be al-'Imad, not 'Imad. So the correct way to write his name would be al-'Imad, short version for 'Imad ad-Din.

[robbabcock_]

What a terrific series! Thanks, Kings and Generals! 😎⚔🔥🏹🙌

[CufCufImam]

No ethno-linguistic group dealt with Crusades more than the Turkic peoples did. Turks dealt with Crusades for 600 years both in the form of actual Crusades or Holy Leagues. There are around more than 12 Crusades & Holy Leagues directed at Turks.

[ahmadsatriai]

Talking about Yusuf ibn Ayyub Salahuddin ( Saladin ) will not be completed if Imad ad-din and Nur ad-din Zengi aren't mentioned considering their influence that would lead to Jerussalem liberation

Too bad the later Zengids fight against Saladin over their control for northen Levant


By the way, could you please made a video about the decline of Abbasid caliphate and the battles involved ? ( It occurred several decades before the first crusade )

[kaisersoze]

Imad al-Din and Nuredin Zengi were one of the best turkish commanders in history.

[arda]

Saladin was nowhere near the worst crusader nightmare.

Baibars was. Mamluks were. They literally ended them.