Editing Aleppo (section)

====Early Islamic period====
The [[Sasanian Persia]]ns led by King [[Khosrow I]] pillaged and burned Aleppo in 540,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/content/aleppo |title=Aleppo |website=UNESCO |access-date=3 August 2020 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010212416/https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/content/aleppo |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Aleppo |title=Aleppo |website=Britannica |date=9 May 2023 |access-date=3 August 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729085943/https://www.britannica.com/place/Aleppo |url-status=live }}</ref> then they [[Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628|invaded and controlled]] Syria briefly in the early 7th century. Soon after Aleppo was [[Siege of Aleppo (637)|taken]] by the [[Rashidun Caliphate|Rashidun]] [[Early Muslim conquests|Muslims]] under [[Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah]] in 637. It later became part of [[Jund Qinnasrin]] under the [[Umayyad Caliphate]]. In 944, it became the seat of an independent Emirate under the [[Hamdanid]] prince [[Sayf al-Dawla]], and enjoyed a period of great prosperity, being home to the great poet [[al-Mutanabbi]] and the philosopher and [[polymath]] [[al-Farabi]].{{sfn|Burns|2016|pp=90–92}} In 962, the city was [[Sack of Aleppo (962)|sacked]] by the Byzantine general [[Nikephoros II Phokas|Nikephoros Phokas]].{{sfn|Burns|2016|pp=92–93}} Subsequently, the city and its emirate [[Treaty of Safar|became a temporary vassal]] of the Byzantine Empire. For the next few decades, the city was disputed by the [[Fatimid Caliphate]] and [[Byzantine Empire]], with the nominally independent Hamdanids in between, eventually falling to the Fatimids in 1017.{{sfn|Burns|2016|pp=96–99}} In 1024, [[Salih ibn Mirdas]] launched an attack on Fatimid Aleppo, and after a few months was invited into the city by its population.{{sfn|Burns|2016|p=99}} The [[Mirdasid dynasty]] then ruled the city until 1080, interrupted only in 1038–1042, when it was in the hands of the Fatimid commander-in-chief in Syria, [[Anushtakin al-Dizbari]], and in 1057–1060, when it was ruled by a Fatimid governor, [[Ibn Mulhim]]. Mirdasid rule was marked by internal squabbles between different Mirdasid chieftains that sapped the emirate's power and made it susceptible to external intervention by the Byzantines, Fatimids, [[Uqaylids]], and [[Turkoman (ethnonym)|Turkoman]] warrior bands.{{sfn|Bianquis|1993|pp=116–122}}