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Saladin was a Muslim military leader who founded the Ayyubid dynasty and led Islamic forces during the Crusades.
Entries in this chronological list of Muslim military leaders are accompanied by dates of birth and death, branch of Islam, country of birth, field of study, campaigns fought and a short biographical description. The list includes notable conquerors, generals and admirals from early Islamic history to the 21st century.
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...
In his An Eyewitness History of the Crusades (2004), [209] Tyerman provides the history of the crusades told from original eyewitness sources, both Christian and Muslim. Thomas Asbridge (born 1969) has written The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam (2004) [ 210 ] and the more expansive The ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... This is a list of the principal leaders of the Crusades, classified by Crusade. Crusader ...
The Concise History of Humanity, by Abu al-Fida. Summarized in RHC Historiens orientaux, Volume 3.1 [100] Kitāb al-Khiṭaṭ al-Maqrīzīyah, by al-Maqrizi. [109] Portions on the Seventh Crusade excerpted in the Internet History Sourcebook [110] and in Chronicles of the Crusades. [111] History of the Ayyubit and Mameluke Rulers, by al-Maqrizi ...
The Fifth Crusade (September 1217 - August 29, 1221) [2] was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by al-Adil, brother of Saladin.
In return for patronage from the leaders of the crusades, poets wrote praising the ideals of the nobility. [62] These relationships were of a feudal nature and were presented in this context. To demonstrate this, the crusaders were God's vassals fighting the restore to him the (Holy) land. [63] Muslims were presented as having stolen this land.