al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi (1213-26 November 1236) was the Ayyubid Emir of Aleppo from 8 October 1216 to 26 November 1236, succeeding az-Zahir Ghazi and preceding an-Nasir Yusuf.
Biography[]
al-Aziz Muhammad was born in Aleppo, Ayyubid Syria in 1213, the son of az-Zahir Ghazi. He was just three years old when he succeeded his father as Emir in 1216, and the mamluk Shihab ad-Din Toghrul served as his regent for the next 15 years. al-Aziz refortified the citadel and build the city's palace, mosque, arsenal, and water cisterns. He married the daughter of Sultan al-Kamil, and, in 1234, he contributed troops to al-Kamil's invasion of Anatolia, only for the invasion to be defeated by the Seljuk Sultan Kayqubad I. al-Aziz died in 1236.