1. An-Nasir Dawud was a Kurdish ruler, briefly Ayyubid sultan of Damascus and later Emir of Al-Karak.
12 Facts About An-Nasir Dawud
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An-Nasir Dawud was the son of Al-Mu'azzam, the Ayyubid Sultan of Damascus from 1218 to 1227.
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On his father's death, An-Nasir succeeded, but soon faced opposition from his uncle, Al-Kamil of Egypt, who made war on him, conquering Jerusalem and Nablus.
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An-Nasir Dawud appealed for help to his other uncle, Al-Ashraf, ruler of Harran.
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An-Nasir Dawud realizing the deception in time, retreated to his capital of Damascus, where he was besieged by the combined armies of his uncle late in 1228.
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An-Nasir Dawud was compensated with the lordship of Kerak in the Transjordan region.
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An-Nasir Dawud was to rule from Kerak for the next thirty years.
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An-Nasir Dawud held him prisoner, refusing to give him up to Al-Adil II, Ayyub's brother and the ruler of Egypt.
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An-Nasir Dawud did not attempt to hold Jerusalem but merely destroyed the fortifications and withdrew to Kerak.
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An-Nasir Dawud's army met the troops of An-Nasir in battle west of Jerusalem, and were defeated.
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The arrival of a force of Khwarizmian freebooters from the north led to the abandonment of an attempted joint Crusader-Damascene invasion of Egypt, and An-Nasir Dawud again withdrew to Kerak.
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An-Nasir Dawud continued to rule Kerak until 1248, when he was finally deposed.