Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush
12th century Turkish Mamluk commander
Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush al-Armanī al-Muzaffari al-Nasiri, also al-Taqavi and al-Ghuzi was an Ayyubid Mamluk, who was of Armenian origin according to historians Ibn Khaldun and Muḥammad ibn Khalīl Ibn Ghalbūn of Ottoman Libya. Under the service of the Ayyubid prince al-Muzaffar He engaged in a series of campaigns of conquest in Tripolitania and Ifriqiya between 1172 and the 1190s. Operating on behalf of Saladin initially, but increasingly on his own account, he fought against the expanding Almohad Caliphate and allied with the Banu Ghaniya.