Imad al-Din Zengi

Names
	Imad al-Din Atabeg Zengi al-Malik al-Mansur

Imad al-Din Zengi
Imad al-Din Zengi
Atabeg of Mosul, Aleppo, Hama and Edessa, Mesopotamia
	Ruler in Turkic military dress: long braids, sharbush fur hat, boots, close-fitting coat. Maqamat by Al-Hariri of Basra (1054–1122), a high government official of the Seljuks. Mesopotamia, possibly Baghdad, 1237 copy.
Atabeg of Zengid dynasty
Reign	1124–1127: Seljuk Governor of Wasit and Basra; 1126–1127: Seljuk Shihna, Governor of Iraq; 1127–1146: Atabeg of Mosul;
Coronation	1127, Mosul, Seljuk Empire
Successor	Nur ad-Din Zengi (in Aleppo); Sayf al-Din Ghazi I (in Mosul);
Born	c. 1084/88
Died	September 14, 1146 (aged 61); Qal'at Ja'bar, Seljuk Empire
Spouse	Zumurrud Khatun; Sukmana Khatun; Safiya Khatun;
Names
Names
	Imad al-Din Atabeg Zengi al-Malik al-Mansur
Dynasty	Zengid dynasty
Father	Aq Sunqur al-Hajib
Religion	Sunni Islam
Military career
Conflicts	Siege of Hama (1130); Battle of al-Atharib (1130); Battle of Rafaniyya; Zengid campaign against Antioch; Battle of Qinnasrin; Battle of Ba'rin; Siege of Aleppo (1138); Siege of Shaizar; Siege of Baalbek; Siege of Edessa (1144); Fall of Saruj;

Al-Malik al-Mansur Abu al-Mudhaffar Imad al-Din Zengi bin Aq Sunqur al-Hajib bin Abdullah (Arabic: المَلِكُ المَنْصُور أَبُو المُظَفَّرِ عِمَادُ اَلدِّينِ زَنْكِي بْنُ آقِ سَنقَر الحَاجِب بْنِ عَبْدِ الله ; c. 1084/88 – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the Seljuk Empire, who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake and founder of the Zengid dynasty of atabegs.