Husam al-Din Timurtash

His first task, still very young, was in 1111/12, when he was sent as ambassador to the Seljuk sultan Muhammad I Tapar to intercede for the fate of Dubais ibn Sadaqa.

When his cousin Belek Ghazi died during the siege of Manbij on 6 May 1124, Timurtash, who had accompanied him, took his dead body back to Aleppo on the next day,[2] hence he became the ruler of the city.

[5][3] However, Timurtash was later defeated on the outskirts of Aleppo by forces loyal to the local Seljuk Sultan-Shah, and emir Dubais ibn Sadaqa, now allies of the Crusaders.

When Imad al-Din Zengi became the atabeg of Mosul, he laid siege to Nusaybin, which belonged to Timurtash, who asked for help from his cousin Rukn al-Dawla Da'ud, and promised him to rule the city.

[9] Once Zengi left Amida, Da'ud, angry at the lost territories, launched a campaign against his cousin which forced him to demolish the suburbs of Mayyafariqin, as he thought that he could not maintain these parts against the depredations of his rival.

Then the atabeg went to Mardin and Timurtash only got away by giving him Dara and his daughter for marriage; hence, according to Ibn al-Azraq, he avoided the surrender of Abu Bakr.

The attempt to ally Kara Arslan, Da'ud's son and successor, with Timurtash and the Count of Edessa ended with Zengi's conquest of the county capital.

[12] Immediately upon learning of the atabeg's death, Timurtash went out with his Turkmen and occupied some territories such as Hani and Siwan before Zengi's successor in Mosul, his son Sayf al-Din Ghazi I, could establish his power.