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Al-Ashraf Musa

Type Figure Region Anatolia Time c. 1180–1229 Also known as Al-Ashraf Musa ibn al-Adil

An Ayyubid emir in eastern Anatolia, son of Sultan al-Adil, he ruled around Ahlat in the 1220s and died in 1229.

Timeline

  1. 1221–1229Ahlat · East of Lake VanIn the 1220s al-Ashraf Musa controlled the eastern Anatolian frontier from his base at Ahlat and maintained nominal allegiance to his brother emirs in Egypt and Syria. He died in 1229, after which his lands became contested among the Ayyubids, the Sultanate of Rum, and rival factions within the family.

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