Salah ad-Din 6: The Ayyubids

Salah ad-Din’s soldiers in a 14th-century manuscript

This is the Ayyubid Sultanate, the legacy of Salah ad-Din, a run through decades of civil war and crusades, culminating in the rise of the Mamluks.

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