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Sheikh Murad of Tyrus

Sheikh Murad of Tyrus (1070-) was a vassal of the Sheikhdom of Sur and later the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Murad was from the House of Scandalon, a dynasty of Sunni Muslim Arabs. He became the sheikh of Tyrus (present-day Tyre, Lebanon) in the Sheikhdom of Sur, but in 1099 King Godfrey de Bouillon conquered Sur and forced Murad to become a vassal of Duke Tancred of Galilee.

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