Prince Mohammad Shammaa Zengi III (Mohammad Bin Abdullah Bin Mohammad Zengi, 1883–1954;
Arabic
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: محمد بن عبد الله بن محمد شماع الزنكي ) was a member and prince of the
Zengid Dynasty
The Zengid or Zangid dynasty, also referred to as the Atabegate of Mosul, Aleppo and Damascus (Arabic: أتابكة الموصل وحلب ودمشق), or the Zengid State (Old Anatolian Turkish: , Modern Turkish: ; ) was initially an '' Atabegat ...
in
Syria
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, and
one of the pillars in the Syrian
textile
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industry. He opposed the
Syrian government's decision in 1947 to seize his family's assets and
feudal
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properties that had been loaned to the
Islamic
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endowment (الاوقاف) since 1856.
[My diary, pages from the modern history of Syria Hasan al Hakim Arabic: مذكراتي صفحات من تاريخ سورية الحديث 1920-1958 , حسن الحكيم] He was succeeded by
Prince Akram Shammaa Zengi
References
Zengid dynasty
People from Aleppo
1883 births
1954 deaths
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