Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush

Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush al-Armani al-Muzaffari al-Nasiri al-Taqavi (died 1212) was a Circassian Mamluk in the service of the Ayyubid prince al-Muzaffar, who engaged in a series of campaigns of conquest in Tripolitania and Ifriqiya between 1172 and the 1190s. However some historians like Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Galbun said that he was of Armenian origin. Operating on behalf of Saladin initially, but increasingly on his own account, he fought against the expanding Almohad Caliphate and allied with the Banu Ghaniya. In the end, he fell out with the Ghaniya, and was defeated and executed by Yahya ibn Ghaniya at Waddan in 1212.

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12th-century births

1212 deaths

12th-century Armenian people

13th-century Armenian people

Medieval Armenian generals

Slaves from the Ayyubid Sultanate

Saladin

Medieval Libya

12th century in Ifriqiya

Mamluks

Year of birth unknown