113 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
affiftance of Nur-el-dm, Sultan of Damafcus*. In 1164 his 
requeft was complied with. Shirakuk, called Syracon by the 
Chriftian writers, and his nephew, the famous Salah-el-din, or 
Saladin, were fent to re-eftablifh Shawur, who fooh finding his 
afTociates too powerful, formed an alliance with the Franks. 
Shirakuk however defeated all his projects; and in 11 69 pro- 
cured an order from the Chalif Aded for the decapitation of 
Schawur, with the robe and firman of wizir for himfelf. He 
died in the fame year, and was fucceeded by his nephew 
Saladin. 
: 1 171. Saladin obliges the Franks to evacuate Egypt. An 
enemy of the Fatimites, from religious fchifm, he omits 
the name of Aded, in the public prayei's, and fubftitutes that 
of the Chalif of Bagdad. Aded died on the 13th of Septem- 
ber 1 171 ; and in him terminated the dynafty of the Fatimites. 
His fucceffors renounced the title of Chalif, and afTumed only 
that of Sultans. 
* The power of the Challfs, fucceflbrs of Mohammed, had fallen about 
the middle of the eleventh century. The Turks, a Tataric nation, feized 
Iconium, and moft of Afia Minor, about 1074. Twenty years after, Aleppo 
and Damafcus became feparate fovereignties under the grandfons of Elf Arflan ; 
the former city had been long fubje£l to the Chalifs of Egypt. 
