Al-Karak (Arabic: الكرك), in English sources often simply Karak, is a city in Jordan known for its medieval castle, the Kerak Castle. The castle is one...
26 KB (2,699 words) - 13:48, 17 September 2024
Castle, also spelled Karak Krak de Montreal Al-Karak or Kerak, city in Jordan, named after Kerak Castle Karak Governorate, Jordan al-Karak, Syria, city in...
2 KB (246 words) - 13:44, 17 September 2024
shootings took place in the city of Al-Karak in southern Jordan. The attack started in the vicinity of Al-Karak where a group of unidentified militants...
22 KB (2,222 words) - 11:32, 30 August 2024
Kerak Castle (redirect from Karak Castle)
Castle (Arabic: قلعة الكرك, romanized: Qal'at al-Karak) is a large medieval castle located in al-Karak, Jordan. It is one of the largest castles in the...
19 KB (2,211 words) - 10:38, 19 July 2024
History of Jordan (section Al-Majali of Al-Karak)
north of Al-Karak for himself, securing Majali power and riches in Al Al-Karak. The Beni Sakher under Awad bin Thiab Al-Fayez reinstated the Ahl Al-Shamal...
101 KB (12,768 words) - 04:42, 10 September 2024
Qutuz (redirect from Al-Malik al-Muzaffar Saif ad-Din Qutuz)
of al-Malik al-Mughith of Al-Karak which were supported by the Bahriyya Mamluks. The raids caused a dispute among the Bahriyya Mamluks in Al-Karak as...
30 KB (4,145 words) - 18:44, 18 July 2024
Jordan (redirect from Al-Mamlakah Al-Urdunnīyah Al-Hāshimīyah)
part of the Lordship of Oultrejordain, including those of Montreal and Al-Karak. The Ayyubids built the Ajloun Castle and rebuilt older castles, to be...
231 KB (20,781 words) - 14:07, 15 September 2024
in the desert fortress of al-Karak in Transjordan and was reluctant to assume the sultanate in Cairo, preferring al-Karak, where he was closely allied...
25 KB (3,293 words) - 18:02, 16 July 2024
Karak (Arabic: الكرك) is one of the governorates of Jordan, located south-west of Amman, Jordan's capital. Its capital is Al-Karak. It s bordered by Madaba...
14 KB (693 words) - 19:45, 22 February 2024
Siege of Kerak (redirect from Siege of Al-Karak (1183))
to dissuade future Christian attacks on Mecca. Saladin and his commander, Al-Adil, led the Muslim effort to capture Kerak. The Muslims had sought to take...
11 KB (1,068 words) - 11:10, 12 September 2024
Qaṣabah al-Karak is one of the districts of Karak governorate, Jordan. "Jordan: Administrative Division, Governorates and Districts". citypopulation.de...
4 KB (37 words) - 19:43, 23 February 2024
capture, al-Kasasbeh lived in the village of Ay in the Karak Mountains in Karak Governorate, 90 miles (140 km) south of Amman. In 2009, al-Kasasbeh graduated...
30 KB (2,781 words) - 21:28, 10 August 2024
The Karak revolt was an uprising against Ottoman authority in the Transjordanian town of Al-Karak, which erupted on 4 December 1910. The revolt came after...
9 KB (1,003 words) - 13:25, 20 July 2023
Sultan and accompanied him and Mamluk Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Salihi (not the Baibars who became a Sultan) to Al Karak during his detention there in 1239. Later...
42 KB (6,151 words) - 02:50, 4 September 2024
List of Ayyubid rulers (section Emirs of al-Karak)
Transjordan. See al-Karak, Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods. Saladin, 1188 Al-Adil I, brother of Saladin, 1188-1193 Al-Mu'azzam Isa, son of al-Adil I, 1193–1227...
17 KB (1,179 words) - 23:22, 19 July 2024
Mamluk Sultanate (redirect from Dawla al-Turkiyya)
the latter's half-brother, al-Nasir Ahmad of al-Karak, was declared sultan. Ahmad relocated to al-Karak and left a deputy to govern in Cairo. This unorthodox...
149 KB (18,457 words) - 02:04, 18 September 2024
principal city of Bilad al-Sharat is Al-Karak. The northern part of the region in Jordan is under the administration of the Karak Governorate, while the...
7 KB (793 words) - 15:23, 10 July 2024
Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Arabic: أبو حفص الهاشمي القرشي) is the fifth and current caliph of the Islamic State. He was named as caliph on 3 August...
18 KB (1,624 words) - 15:59, 13 September 2024
neighboring regions of southern Palestine and Syria. The inhabitants of Al-Salt and Al-Karak are reputed to make the best mansaf in Jordan. Other variants of...
18 KB (1,981 words) - 19:32, 10 August 2024
another section in the palace where they stayed until they were sent to al-Karak thus ending the first reign of an-Nasir. In 1296 Kitbugha was deposed by...
55 KB (7,502 words) - 14:22, 26 May 2024
Siege of Al-Karak was a 17-day siege imposed by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt on the Transjordanian town of Al-Karak in 1834. The Pasha laid the siege on the...
10 KB (877 words) - 10:30, 30 August 2024
another section of the palace and later to Al Karak . Kitbugha was installed as Sultan and took the royal name Al-Adil. He made Lajin his Vice-Sultan. In...
14 KB (2,056 words) - 13:53, 10 August 2024
reside in such places as Kufr Jayiz, Waqqas and Ghor al-Safi (al-Karak). It originated in the Karak area, where it participated in the battles of Hittin...
2 KB (172 words) - 03:52, 22 August 2022
wedding took place on 8 June 1277. She died in August 1288. Exiled to Al Karak fortress, in Jordan, he died there in 1280. Burgoyne, Michael Hamilton...
4 KB (346 words) - 23:37, 17 September 2024
Statistics (CBS), Al-Karak had a population of 10,510 in the 2004 census. In 1596, Al-Karak appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Karak al-Bataniyya'; part...
5 KB (234 words) - 19:51, 26 April 2024
from Al Karak who recruited Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to fight in Afghanistan. He was one of participants in the Afghan Arabs, and the manager of Maktab al-Khidamat...
3 KB (264 words) - 15:48, 8 September 2024
an early age, Abu Bakr received military training in the desert town of al-Karak. His father, Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1310–41), groomed him as a potential...
10 KB (1,196 words) - 21:23, 21 June 2024
Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi (Arabic: أبو الحسين الحسيني القرشي, romanized: Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Husaynī al-Qurashī; died 29 April 2023) was the fourth...
17 KB (1,474 words) - 20:59, 17 September 2024
Ma'an and its surroundings as one of four districts of the al-Karak province. According to al-Dimashqi, during that time period, it grew to become a "small...
28 KB (2,655 words) - 20:11, 9 September 2024