Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush

Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush al-Armani al-Muzaffari al-Nasiri al-Taqavi was an Armenian 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. 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.[1]

References
  1. Pellat 1978, p. 614.

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