Al Aziz Muhammad was the Ayyubid emir of Aleppo (r.1216-1236) (613-634), son of Az-Zahir Ghazi and grandson of Saladin. His mother was Dayfa Khatun, the daughter of Saladin’s brother Al-Adil. Al Aziz Muhammad was aged just three when his father Az- Zahir Ghazi died in 1216 at the age of forty-five. He immediately inherited his father’s position as ruler of Aleppo. A regency council was formed, which appointed Shihab ad-Din Toghril as his atabeg or guardian.