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 "id": "event/taqi-al-din-routs-qilij-arslan-579",
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 "slug": "taqi-al-din-routs-qilij-arslan-579",
 "label": {
  "ar": "هزيمة عساكر قلج أرسلان بألف فارس",
  "en": "Taqi al-Dīn routs Qilij Arslān's twenty thousand with a thousand horse"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "طمع قلج أرسلان صاحب الروم في الشام لوقوعها بين الملك الصالح وصلاح الدين فاجتمع عليه جمع كثير يقال كانوا عشرين ألفًا، فأرسل إليهم صلاح الدين أخاه تقي الدين في ألف فارس فواقعهم وهزمهم وعاد ولم يحضر معه غير تخريب حصن الأحزان، وكان يفتخر ويقول هزمت بألف مقاتل عشرين ألفًا {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 97}.",
  "en": "Qilij Arslān of Rūm, scenting weakness while Aleppo stood between al-Ṣāliḥ and Saladin, crossed with a host said to be twenty thousand. Saladin sent his brother Taqī al-Dīn ʿUmar with a thousand horse; he broke them and returned having only demolished the Aḥzān fort — boasting ever after «I routed twenty thousand with a thousand» {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 97}."
 },
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  "latest": 1183.9989185267004
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1183~",
   "hijri": "0579",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1183~",
   "hijri": "0579",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  }
 },
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  "kind": "battle",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1183~",
    "hijri": "0579",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true
   }
  },
  "sides": [
   {
    "label": {
     "ar": "عسكر صلاح الدين",
     "en": "Saladin's force"
    },
    "commanders": [
     "person/taqi-al-din-umar"
    ]
   },
   {
    "label": {
     "ar": "سلاجقة الروم",
     "en": "the Seljuks of Rūm"
    },
    "commanders": [
     "person/qilij-arslan-ii"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ لابن الأثير، قراءة آبل فيجن",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-kamil-v12-batch02"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "طمع قلج أرسلان في الشام لوقوعها بين الملك الصالح وصلاح الدين فاجتمع له نحو عشرين ألفًا، فأرسل صلاح الدين أخاه تقي الدين عمر في ألف فارس فواقعهم وهزمهم وخرّب حصن الأحزان وكان يقول هزمت بألف مقاتل عشرين ألفًا {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 97}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/taqi-al-din-routs-qilij-arslan-579",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Qilij Arslan coveted Syria, since it lay between al-Malik al-Salih and Salah al-Din, and about twenty thousand men gathered to him. Salah al-Din sent his brother Taqi al-Din Umar with a thousand horsemen. Taqi al-Din met them in battle, routed them and ruined the fortress of al-Ahzan. He used to say that he had defeated twenty thousand with a thousand fighters. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 97}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/taqi-al-din-routs-qilij-arslan-579",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "قلج ارسلان نے شام پر نظریں جما لیں، کیونکہ وہ الملک الصالح اور صلاح الدین کے درمیان واقع تھا، اور اس کے گرد تقریباً بیس ہزار لوگ جمع ہو گئے۔ صلاح الدین نے اپنے بھائی تقی الدین عمر کو ایک ہزار سواروں کے ساتھ بھیجا۔ تقی الدین نے ان سے جنگ کی، انہیں شکست دی اور حصن الاحزان کو ویران کر دیا۔ وہ کہا کرتے تھے کہ انہوں نے ایک ہزار جنگجوؤں کے ساتھ بیس ہزار کو شکست دی۔ {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 97}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/taqi-al-din-routs-qilij-arslan-579",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-21",
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   "sources": [
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   "to": "person/salah-al-din-yusuf-ibn-ayyub",
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  "event/battle-of-hattin-583",
  "person/salah-al-din-yusuf-ibn-ayyub",
  "person/taqi-al-din-umar",
  "event/abbasid-khutba-egypt-567",
  "event/acre-great-battle-587",
  "event/adil-aziz-shuffle-582",
  "event/astrologers-scare-582",
  "event/battle-ford-of-sorrows-575"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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