As-Salih Ismail
Al -Malik as- Salih Imad ad-Din Isma'il (* 1200, † 1250) was Sultan of Damascus. He was a son of the Ayyubid sultan al - Adil I. and brother of al - Kamil.
Life
After his brother al - Ashraf was died in 1237, took over as- Salih Ismail of him dominion over Damascus. This brought him into conflict with his older brother, al - Kamil, the Sultan of Egypt, who claimed supremacy over all the possessions of the Ayyubids. So as- Salih Ismail was besieged there for only two months after he took office in Damascus by al- Kamil and finally discontinued. He became reconciled to 1238 with al - Kamil and became governor of Bosra and Baalbek.
When al - Kamil died in 1238, Damascus was taken by his son, Ismail's nephew, al - Adil II in possession after his brother, Ismail's nephew, as- Salih Ayyub, who had hitherto reigned in northern Mesopotamia announced, the father as Sultan want to follow from Egypt. Al- Adil II now let his cousin al - Dschauad back as governor in Damascus and hurried himself to Cairo, where he became Sultan of Egypt. Meanwhile, as- Salih Ayyub marched on the road to Damascus, and took until December 1238, the control of Damascus. As- Salih Ismail now allied himself first with as- Salih Ayyub.
As Salih Ayyub as- a campaign against al - Adil II undertook in August 1239, initially conquered territories in the area of Nablus and planned to continue to march to Egypt, refused to as- Salih Ismail him an excuse to lead the army. He allied himself instead with the Ayyubid emirs of Kerak, Hama and Homs and use the absence of as- Salih Ayyubs to conquer in September 1239 Damascus and to make himself again to the Sultan of Damascus.
As- Salih Ayyub was left then by a majority of its troops in the lurch and fell into captivity local Bedouins him. Against an-Nasir Dawud, the Emir of Kerak extradited An-Nasir Dawud now allied himself with as- Salih Ayyub and helped him to get a small army to Egypt, where as- Salih Ayyub was welcomed as the new Sultan of Egypt, where al - Adil II crashed just at a palace coup had been. An-Nasir Dawud himself fell out shortly thereafter with as- Salih Ayyub and allied himself again with as- Salih Ismail, while as- Salih Ayyub for Damascus and Kerak upgraded back to his Ayyubid Empire incorporate.
In this critical time of the armistice agreement expired with the Crusader States and in September 1239 a new crusade army under Theobald IV of Champagne Palestine had promptly achieved ( crusade of the barons ). As- Salih Ismail and al-Nasir Dawud decided to offer the crusaders an alliance against as- Salih Ayyub, so they keep him in an attack on their territories. In the summer of 1240 they signed an agreement with the Crusaders, after these areas should be west of the Jordan, which Saladin had once conquered 1187/88 include. Those lands which belonged at that time as- Salih Ismail, particularly the Galilee with the fortresses Hunin, Tiberias, Safed and Beaufort were handed out to the Christians, the others were still together as- Salih Ayyub decrease. The agreement came in the Arab world widely rejected and parts of as- Salih Ismail's troops refused to fight alongside the Christians. This circumstance led the Crusaders to close the end of 1240 a neutrality agreement with as- Salih Ayyub, who ceded them the promised of as- Salih Ismail other lands in Palestine and are now back dedicated to the fight against his uncle.
1244 advertised as- Salih Ayyub in northern Syria abandoned Khwarazmian irregulars, which is now plundering through Palestine tightened, united in Gaza with the main army as- Salih Ayyubs and in October 1244 in the battle of La Forbie the re- united squad as- Salih Isamils and the Crusader States proposed devastating. As a result of the battle was able to unite the Ayyubidenreich by and by as- Salih Ayyub the most part, Damascus was captured in October 1245 after nearly eight - month siege. As- Salih Ismail retired to Baalbek and died 1250.