Atiyya ibn Salih

Asad al-Dawla Abū Dhūʿaba ʿAṭiyya ibn Ṣāliḥ (; died July 1073) was the Mirdasid emir of Aleppo in 1062–1065. Prior to his assumption of the emirate in Aleppo, he had been the Mirdasid emir of al-Rahba from 1060. He continued as the emir of al-Rahba and the eastern portion of the Mirdasid realm after losing Aleppo to his nephew Mahmud ibn Nasr. He lost al-Rahba in 1070. He entered Byzantine protection afterward and launched a failed assault against Mahmud's territories before his death in Constantinople.

Family Atiyya was the son of Salih ibn Mirdas, who established Mirdasid rule in Aleppo in 1024, and his wife Tarud. The latter was noted in contemporary sources for her beauty. However, his name ʿAṭiyya ("the Gift") suggests he was born after Salih and Tarud remarried, according to historian Suhayl Zakkar.

At the time of Atiyya's capture of al-Rahba, Thimal had given up control of Aleppo to the Fatimids in exchange for the governorship of the coastal districts of Acre, Beirut and Jubayl. The Fatimid troops were defeated in August 1060 and Atiyya took control of the citadel. Two days later control passed to Mahmud. Many of the Turkmens were killed and Ibn Khan defected to Mahmud.

After Atiyya's requests for military assistance from the Fatimids to restore his emirate were rebuffed, he sought the aid of the Byzantines. With support of their troops in Antioch, he launched a raid on Ma'arrat Misrin in Mahmud's emirate in 1071. The raid was apparently of little consequence. The Byzantines supported Atiyya's activities in the aftermath of their defeat at the Battle of Manzikert and their aim was to weaken or expel the Turkmen troops of the emirate. Afterward, he took refuge in the Byzantine capital at Constantinople where he died in July 1073, after falling asleep on a roof while drunk and then falling from it. His corpse was taken to Aleppo for burial.