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While making ready to invade Egypt he was informed that his brother had been captured by his soldiers and was being held prisoner. As-Salih was invited to come at once and assume the Sultanate. [6] In August 1239, Ayyub began pressuring Al-Salih Ismail to join him at Nablus for the campaign to take over Egypt from al-Adil II. Ayyub began to ...
Al-Adil died in prison eight years later. Contemporary Muslim historians wrote disapprovingly about al-Adil II's "boisterous living and loose morals". [ 1 ] : 308 This is seemingly corroborated by an inlaid brass basin made for him by the master craftsman Ahmad al-Dhaki al-Mawsili which contains a "somewhat risqué" depiction of total nudity ...
The Louvre basin, made for the Ayyubid sultan al-Adil II sometime between 1238 and 1240. [1]: 301 There is an incision on the base which says the basin had belonged specifically to the vestry (ṭishtkhānah) of al-Adil. [1]: 301 Another mark was left by a later owner, the Yemeni prince Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, in 1775.
Al-Adil's second son, Al-Mu'azzam Isa, had already been made prince of Damascus in 1198. [7] It appears that Al-Adil allowed Al-Kamil a fairly high degree of authority, since he oversaw much of the work on the Cairo Citadel , issued decrees in his own name, and even managed to persuade his father to dismiss the powerful minister Ibn Shukr. [ 8 ]
In the same way, decorative foliage parallels older works. The spiral motif is predominant in Egypt: it is found for example on ivories and Fatimid woodwork. [42] In Ayyubid metals, as on the Basin of Sultan al-'Adil II signed by al-Dhaki, [43] the foliage – as well as the calligraphy of the signature – are very similar to those on the ...
The Fifth Crusade (September 1217 - August 29, 1221) [1] 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.
Al-Adil I (1145–1218), also known as Safadin (Sayf-ad-Din), was the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and brother of Saladin. Al-Adil (the Just) is a laqab (an Arabic cognomen or epithet). It may also refer to: Al-Adil II (c. 1221–1248), Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, great-nephew of Saladin; Abdallah al-Adil (died 1227), Almohad caliph of Morocco
Al-Afdal was one of the Ayyubid commanders at the Battle of Arsuf, when Saladin was defeated by Richard I of England and the forces of the Third Crusade.When Saladin died in 1193, al-Afdal inherited Damascus, but not the rest of his father's territories; Egypt was claimed by his brother al-Aziz, where he was already installed as governor, and Aleppo by another brother az-Zahir.