Duqaq

Timeline

1. 1095–1100Damascus · DamascusAfter his father Tutush's death, the young Duqaq succeeded in Damascus under the regency of vizier Taj al-Muluk Mu'azzam. He fought his brother Ridwan for years over the Syrian inheritance, repeatedly attacking each other between 1097 and 1099, weakening their unified response to the crusader invasion.
2. 1101–1104Harran · Northern MesopotamiaFrom 1101 to 1103 he fought Tancred and Baldwin I along the southern Levantine frontier. In the Battle of Harran in May 1104, the allied forces of Duqaq and Ridwan were badly defeated by Tancred, dealing a heavy blow to Syrian Muslim powers. Duqaq died of illness that June, aged only twenty, plunging Damascus into a succession crisis.