مسلم بن قريش  .. كتاب مائة أوائل من تراثنا ، الكاتب عبد الهادي حرصوني

Muslim bin Qureshi

After the Muslims conquered Iraq and the Levant, Umar ibn al-Khattab created a state separating the Levant from Iraq. It was called the Jazira. This rich state included several important cities, the most important of which was Mosul, and the most famous of them. Arab tribes.

And when the rupture of the Abbasid caliphate occurred, and independent tendencies emerged in the regions, the Hamdanid state was established in Mosul in the fourth century AH. The Kurds, while the tribe of Aqil, who recently migrated from the peninsula, pressured the south, and the Hamdanid state was unable to stand firm and fell, so its possessions were inherited by two states, one Kurdish in the north known as the Marwanid state, and another Arab in Mosul known as the Al-Muqbiliyah state.

Several princes turned against the rule of the Aqili emirate in Mosul, the most famous of whom was Qarwash Ibn Al-Muqlid, and the greatest of them all was Muslim bin Quraish, and Qarwash ruled Mosul from the year (1000 haqq 1050 AD) and he was one of the greatest Bedouin personalities of his era, as he was a man of letters, a poet, a plunderer and a tyrant, following the methods of the Bedouins
In their ignorance, he was able to preserve the independence of his emirate and establish balanced relations between the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates, but this balance was severely disturbed in his late days, when the island was exposed to the early migration of the Turkmen and their raids on it.

The history of the Uqiliyah state after Qarwash bin Al-Muqalled is part of the history of the establishment of the Seljuk Sultanate, and it is a record of the struggle over the Levant and the Jazira between its Arab inhabitants and rulers and the Turkmen immigrants led by the Seljuks and others. Muslim took over the Emirate of Al-Wasl in the year 1061 AD, at a time when the danger of the Turkmens increased, and the struggle intensified between them and the Arabs for the sovereignty of the Levant and the Jazira. And it was under the rule of the successors of the Mirdasids from the tribe of Kilab, and this tribe was suffering from severe rupture, and the eyes of the Arabs of the Levant turned to their leaders in the hours of ordeal, and they found what they needed in the person of Muslim Ibn Quraish

Muslim worked at the beginning in order to gather the torn Arab forces, and in this way he achieved great successes, by supporting the conditions of the Emirate of Aleppo, and enabling it to withstand in the face of the Turkmens, but it happened that the tribal situation erupted again in the north of the Levant, and in the year 1079 CE, Muslim received from a previous Bin Mahmoud Bin Salih Bin Mirdas, Emir of Aleppo, a letter in which he said: (You are more worthy of me than others, and Arabic unites us, so if you are eaten as he can
. When we review, and the Arabs in the Levant met what Ibn Quraysh did with great pleasure and great welcome, and we have many evidences for that, including, for example, what we find when we review the collection of the poet Ibn Hayyus, who spent nearly sixty years of his life praising the Fatimid rulers of Damascus, then Mirdasid princes in Aleppo, with a number of ministers and vassals in Cairo. The poems of this full collection draw our attention to a poem distinguished by the sincerity of its affection, and the intensity of the expression of the feelings of its speaker. Ibn Hayyus composed this poem in the last days of his life, and praised Muslim ibn Quraish with it after entering Aleppo, and among what he said in it: Oh mercy, I was resurrected, so I revived a nation that had long been afflicted with whom He did not show mercy. The oppression of the female representatives was manifested as the light of the gazelle revealed the misdeeds of a dark night. And the night of fear overtook the right of his wealth in the Levant since he knocked from his perch. Indeed, the subjects in your side have believed in the stratagem of the deceitful and the murder of the arrogant. And tomorrow I will liberate the Levant from them, just as the Khuza’a of Mecca emptied them from their tribes. Unfortunately, Ibn Hayyus’ dream of evacuating the Levant from the Turkmens, who possessed emerging imperial energies, did not come true, and for this reason Ibn Quraysh tried in vain to confront the sweeping Turkmen current, he did not lay down his arms, andmany

So be my eaters, and as a result of that, Muslim mobilized his armies, and came to Aleppo in the year 1080 AD, so he was able to take it with its pen, and thus Muslim bin Quraish united between the north of the Levant and the Jazira, and he began planning to join the rest of the Levant to this unit and expel the Turkmen from the Levant